Thread: Rear Wheel bearing failure

Originally Posted by mick88

Wow that bearing is well and truly destroyed after a forty kay drive, did you hear any rumbles along the way?

Cheers, Mick.

Mick, I drove for 40k, everything sounded perfect. No hint of a problem, until I made a left turn, and the bearing must have collapsed. The wheel locked up and slipped. I slowed down, pulled over to inspect, but I was on a very narrow section of road, around a bend, with a 110km speed limit, so I made the decision to push the extra 3-4km to work. In hindsight this was probably a bad decision as the damaged bearing was spinning in the hub, costing me a new hub.

If you go back to the Series Landrovers, following the deletion of the filler plug on the drive flange during Series 2a production, you were instructed to grease the bearings during assembly.