Evening all, 

 

What would cause the same wheel bearing to keep failing? It's the 3rd time in less than 12 months that the rear passenger side bearing has failed. I'm sick!!! 

 

I'm running 15mm spacers if that makes a difference? 

 

Thanks 

Spacers won't help matters but should last longer than that.

Are they decent bearings you are using or cheap ones?

Not over/under tightening the hub when putting it all back together are you?

Rear beam not bent on that side is it causing extra strain on it?

Is the bearing good quality and is it being fitted properly? As stated spacers really won't help, 15mm is too much really.

Has it been to the same garage all 3 times? Could be anything from bad workmanship plus bad luck to a faulty batch of bearings.

 

As others have stated, spacers won't help matters. Are you running standard wheels or something that sticks out even more? i.e. wider or with less offset?

I'd check the hub in this case and replace it if required.

are they also replacing the Hub nut at the same time? they are Nyloc Nuts and are 1 time use. 

Repeated failure to press the new bearing in straight? This is why I always use a garage with a bearing press to get this job done.

The rear bearings are a complete replacement hub, so no bearing press required. 

 

IMO it will be down to cheap bearings, or they are hammering the hub onto the pin and damaging the new bearings.

As far as I am aware they're from TPS as I've always instructed them to ONLY buy my parts from there... I suspect it could be down to poor workmanship more than anything.

I'm going to run the above points past the garage and see what they say

Evening all, 

 

What would cause the same wheel bearing to keep failing? It's the 3rd time in less than 12 months that the rear passenger side bearing has failed. I'm sick!!! 

 

I'm running 15mm spacers if that makes a difference? 

 

Thanks 

Simple solution remove the spacers if then no bearing failure then that's your problem if bearing still fails then its either bad fitting or poor quality bearings or a hub problem.

I know when they did my passenger side front the specialist I used showed me the jig he had made to ensure it went in correctly (he know's I'm geeky on tools!).

 

Might be time to use another place mate?  Any local Indy specialists about?

Hewesy