Question by Escape: HELP! Wheel bearings question?!?
I’m in autos basics and the other night in class my teacher and I changed the radius arm bushings out on my truck. When we unbolted the shock and a spring, the whole wheel and tire just kinda like moved. I can’t really explain it. And the teacher said, “WOW! You’re wheel bearings are loose. No big deal. You can get em repacked.” I thought no biggie. We put the new bushings on and that took like 2 hrs, and then he told me, “Yeah…you should probably get an alignment ASAP just to not wear your tires.” So….being the paranoid person I am…I took it in today to a mechanic I know from church (and where my truck got tuned up in april to the tune of $ 700). I was quoted $ 51 for the alignment. I could live with that.
Well…about an hour later he calls and tells me the bearings are loose (no duh). They have to be repacked in order to align the truck. To the tune of $ 230.
I was stuck….basically….I bought my Bronco with my life savings. I’m 18.It’s my first car. It’s not that my parents don’t have money…they would just rather I spend my own, and then they can play god and tell me where and when I’m allowed to drive my own vehicle. Also….basically I pay for gas, repairs ect or hang myself. They don’t help with dinero. I checked my bank account and have enough work and birthday money to cover it. Barely. So, I okay’ed it. Now…I’m sitting here wondering…MECHANICS! IS IT REALLY NECESSARY TO REPACK THE BEARINGS IN ORDER TO ALIGN IT…OR DID I JUST GET TAKEN?
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Answer by Azazel
well if your bearings are loose then you cant get a good reading on the machineyou align it one way and then your all over the road. so yes if you want it done right you have to make sur all wheel and steering components are tight and square
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For a four wheel drive thats not to bad as far as price goes.
Hopefully your bearings are allright if they were that loose who knows what kind of shape the race’s are in.
No you did not get taken. Yes it was necessary to repack the bearings for an alignment. An alignment is to make the tires point straight down the road. If you have loose wheel bearings, you may as well not get it aligned at all, because the wheels would be pointing wherever they wanted to at the time.
Yes the bearings have to be in proper working order. If they are loose, then the weight of the vehicle throws off the camber.
So far you’ve been told the truth by two different people. It’s impossible to set the toe-angle during an alignment if the front wheels are wandering all over the place because of loose front wheel bearings. If your Bronco is *not four wheel drive, $ 230 is AGDS (Awful ** Steep) to repack and adjust front wheel bearings. Why don’t you save a ton of money and sweet talk the auto mechanics teacher into showing and helping you pull this easy job off?
It’s also necessary to reset the alignment anyway after changing front suspension bushings. Kill two corrective action birds with one stone before getting it aligned.
I’d say–yes, and yes. Yes, the wheels can’t be loose if you want to have it aligned and yes, that seems excessive to me. But if the bearings were that loose they needed to be replaced, not merely “packed”. Packing is simply cleaning out the old grease and kneading new grease into the bearings, but if the wheels are loose then the bearings went dry and wore down.