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Re: Intermittant rear driveline grinding -- but it's almost all new...

To: tyre@u.washington.edu
Subject: Re: Intermittant rear driveline grinding -- but it's almost all new...
From: "Donald H. Locker" <dhl@mrdog.msl.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 21:25:22 -0500
Hi, John.

I would suggest trying to shoot some grease into the rear bearings.  I
believe there is a grease fitting on the lower inboard side of the
trunnion housing for that purpose.  I didn't know about it and trashed
an axle many years ago.

Donald.

> Anyhow, my questions are: Is there any particularily likely, easy to miss
> (hopefully easy to check :) thing that the folks at Grand Auto may have
> screwed up or overlooked?  They replaced the outer bearing, reassembled...
> and the problem (that time the rear brake shoes were dragging every half
> turn or so because the hub/shaft was wobbling so badly) was still there.
> So they discovered an inboard bearing and replaced that too, and that
> solved the problem until yesterday.
> 

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