Popular Post soldave Posted August 18, 2022 Author Popular Post Report Share Posted August 18, 2022 Looks like mystery may be solved. That clanging coming from the diff area... outer UJ had gone. Three ends looked good, the other had no grease in. Am assuming linked to the bearing failure. Took all circlips off the UJs but ended up just replacing the outer UJ and replacing the clips on the inner one. To tell the truth, I'm so nervous now about whether the circlips are in the UJs securely. It all looks good but it did with the wheel bearing and I just don't trust myself! Might have to do some very gentle drives then come back and check them to build up my confidence. Or I just take the shaft to my local garage and ask them to sense check it for me. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soldave Posted September 1, 2022 Author Report Share Posted September 1, 2022 The Eclat continues to hurt my simple brain. New wheel bearing, new hub carrier, new inner and outer UJs fitted and all torqued up to spec. Initial drive is short and I might be able to hear a noise on rotation, but then again I may just be imagining it. Get home and jack the car back up to make sure everything is still tight and there's 12 o'clock movement when I push the wheel in towards the diff. Rotate the wheel 90 degrees and there's no movement anywhere, rotate another 90 degrees and it's back. put a jack under the hub carrier to simulate drive height - no movement ("obviously", some might say) Checked everything is torqued, including going as far as the inner driveshafts to driveshaft assembly, and all good. I really don't want to believe another wheel bearing has failed on me :if it has the car may have to stay on jackstands for a while as I've just been throwing money at it recently and my wife will start to ask questions about why we're only eating rice and drinking water each day! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post soldave Posted December 23, 2022 Author Popular Post Report Share Posted December 23, 2022 Had to take a hiatus after a couple of rear wheel bearing failures as I was burning through money and also running low on enthusiasm after my own mistake on a circlip killed the first one, then the second was dead on arrival, and then it turned out the other side needed doing too. But a couple of weeks ago I finally got a pair of new rear wheel bearings, got them fitted and there is now zero movement and noise coming from the back. Took the car out on a cold and wet day today and it drove perfectly (after taking it to the redline once to give it that "Italian tuning" which got rid of a tiny misfire!). Thanks to all who provided support on this one. I got the two old bearings out in one piece so will do a little bit of testing on them both once I have some more time, especially the one that was DOA. It was a Lotusbits bearing they pre-fitted to the hub carrier before sending out so was a shame it was dead from the start. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trunnion 74 Posted December 23, 2022 Report Share Posted December 23, 2022 Really pleased you finally got it sorted Dave. Well done 👍 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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