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    Quote Originally Posted by blue_mini View Post
    Well here's the story, I went up to glasshouse about a month ago and submerged my defender pretty heavily, it sat in the water for maybe 5 minutes in this pic.

    I cleaned it all up and it didn't have any problems with anything, no noises or play in the wheel bearing when i checked it all.
    Ive covered at least 1000ks in the weeks since and then yesterday it seems the bearing seized up while travelling 100 km/hr on the highway, managed to control the fishtail and get off the road into a service bay and had a look at it. I totally destroyed the tyre in this pic. Its worn back to to the belts.

    I ripped everything off that side hoping it was something simple like a stuck drum, nothing was locked up, only the drive flange.

    I got a tow truck to a mates place then a mate with his rangie picked me up. I was able to drive onto the trailer, the wheel was free to turn now, just has a massive amount of free play in it.


    Basically my question is, Does a bearing usually make a grinding noise as they wear? Or do they fail like this one did, a sudden instant lockup?
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    I really don't get it why you would drive into a mudhole to intentionally get it bogged and get grinding paste into every nook and cranny, perfectly good road either side by the looks of it. I would be converting to oil fed wheel bearings with the corresponding seals that are more likely to keep the crap out, I would also be keeping an eye on the starter motor and alternator as well, Regards Frank.

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    So I was reading Brisbane Times today and this photo popped up in an article about a journalist being conned by a her boyfriend.

    'Internet searches reveal only so much': a memoir by Stephanie Wood

    From towards the end of the article... its fairly long:
    I do know, though, that photographs can lie, too. Take that shot he sent me in 2015 of his ute bogged in a creek with the caption, my day. Google's reverse image search function unearthed the complete shot from a Land Rover owners' forum: my ex-boyfriend had cropped out the central body of the vehicle and two blokes standing looking at it. He was not one of the two. The photo was taken in Queensland in 2012. The vehicle was the same model and make, but the full picture showed it didn't have the blue-striped doors of my ex-boyfriend's ute. He'd embellished his self-portrait as a rugged man of the bush with a doctored photograph of someone else's ute, someone else's day.
    There you go...
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    Nice necropost.

    I worked with a guy just like the man in that article.
    Other than the romance, I got stung just as bad. Some people live in a world of their own constructed fantasy.

    "We are primed to believe in the goodness of people, and truth as the default position. We want so much that we turn our heads away from the flaws and the oddities. Don't look, we think, they do not matter. We are complicit."
    So true... So much I was told was outlandish on face value, and I believed it. But when hindsight comes into it, you can see it for the bull**** it was.
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    Starting to think the "d" in djhampson is for detective

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    Quote Originally Posted by djhampson View Post
    So I was reading Brisbane Times today and this photo popped up in an article about a journalist being conned by a her boyfriend.

    'Internet searches reveal only so much': a memoir by Stephanie Wood

    From towards the end of the article... its fairly long:


    There you go...
    Lol!!...That article, by a lady that was Conned, was in our Melbourne Age supplement yesterday!
    Pickles.

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    Judging from the rusty rollers and "completely dry", the hole you were stuck in had nothing to do with the bearing failure. The problem was lack of lubrication, not recent water ingress.
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    Look at the photo of spindle,it was dry and rusty before going into the hole and the area that the seal runs on is shagged.The bearing was going to fail regardless of whether you went in that hole or not.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PAT303 View Post
    Look at the photo of spindle,it was dry and rusty before going into the hole and the area that the seal runs on is shagged.The bearing had failed regardless of whether you went in that hole or not.
    Fixed it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JDNSW View Post
    Judging from the rusty rollers and "completely dry", the hole you were stuck in had nothing to do with the bearing failure. The problem was lack of lubrication, not recent water ingress.

    Hard not to agree. It's difficult to see a bearing being responsible for a lock up of that magnitude as well. Usually you find a collapse like this with a wheel in the bush somewhere and the car sitting on the bent backing plate, easily found by following the groove scored into the road.
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