YACT: Calling all car Gurus **updated **

[Adul]

So my girl Friends car just had right wheel bearing replaced 2 weeks ago. This past Saturday on her way over to my place, she had a grinding noise develope. It was bad enough that smoke came out from where the wheel bearing was replaced. Could it still be the wheel bearing? or is there something far worse then that.

She has a 97 Subaru Outback.

** Update **

Well she had the car towed after work yesterday 40 miles. The mechanic looked at it and said thehub/bearing assembly had locked up.

Now my question is, if that was just replaced, what the hell did they screw up to cause this to lock up. Any ideas as to why this happened? If it is their fault, I sure as hell don't want her paying $$ for something that shouldn't have happened in the first place.

 

[shilala]

It's probably the brake pad dragging cause they didn't readjust them after changing out the wheel bearing.
Spit on the drum and see if it's hot after you run it awhile.
See if you can get the poor girl into a nice Dodge or something too, will ya?
American rides create American jobs, and all that...

 

[Adul]

Originally posted by: shilala
It's probably the brake pad dragging cause they didn't readjust them after changing out the wheel bearing.
Spit on the drum and see if it's hot after you run it awhile.
See if you can get the poor girl into a nice Dodge or something too, will ya?
American rides create American jobs, and all that...

she is thinking about the Scion TC actually.

I didn't think it would be the brake pad as it doesn't seem to get any worse when you use the brakes.

 

[kami333]

American rides create American jobs, and all that...

Cause Legacies are not assembled in Lafayette, Indiana...

 

[Adul]

were are all our car guys today. :x

 

[Kelemvor]

Either take it back and have them fix their mistake at their own cost. Or take it somewhere else for a free estimate first to get some ammunition in case the original place tries to say that nothing is wrong.

 

Originally posted by: shilala
It's probably the brake pad dragging cause they didn't readjust them after changing out the wheel bearing.
Spit on the drum and see if it's hot after you run it awhile.
See if you can get the poor girl into a nice Dodge or something too, will ya?
American rides create American jobs, and all that...

My rotors are hot after 2 minutes of normal driving, and nothing is rubbing against my rotor.
Though that could very easily be part of it.
Bring it back to the shop she had it fixed at and ask that they check out the work they did.

All subarus except for imprezas and one other model are made in America.

 

[shilala]

Your brake pads constantly rest on the rotor. Especially new ones. They're supposed to.

 

[brunswickite]

you should make this a sticky

 

[Adul]

Originally posted by: brunswickite
you should make this a sticky

i dont have sticky powers

 

[Adul]

Anyone?

 

[causearuckus]

If the bearings wear just replaced it may be the brakes or the parking brake. subarus are known to have parking brake trouble. smoke probably wouldnt come from a frozen bearing

 

[ScoobMaster]

If the smoke was coming from the center of the hub and it was locked up, then it most certainly is the bearing that failed. If they just replaced it, I would say it is most likely their fault (at the very least it was a defective bearing from the manufacturer, which the service shop should take care of for you). They only things I can come up with are lack of lubrication (they forgot to grease the bearing - unlikely but not impossible), overtightening of the hub retaining nut (puts too much lateral pressure on the bearing race and the resulting friction heats up the side of the bearing and hub), or a defective bearing.

 

[kami333]

There was a problem with overtorquing the bolts I believe, I've read it on NASIOC. Not sure how prevalent or big of a problem it is.

 

[Adul]

Originally posted by: kami333
There was a problem with the nuts I believe, I've read it on NASIOC. Not sure how prevalent or big of a problem it is.

nuts?

 

[kami333]

Originally posted by: Adul

Originally posted by: kami333
There was a problem with the nuts I believe, I've read it on NASIOC. Not sure how prevalent or big of a problem it is.

nuts?

lol, sorry long day at work (GMT +1 time)

What I meant to say was over torquing the nuts (or bolts).

link

 

[Beau]

I call shens. Adul has a girlfriend? :roll: (unless he's a lesbian)

 

[Turkish]

Adul, please quit stickying useless threads in Offtopic. Thanks.

 

[DivideBYZero]

Sorry. I was 'grinding' your GF in the back of her Legacy.

 

[Adul]

Thanks for the info guys. Well everyone except the boss