Knuckle rebuild issue

[Broski]

Bearing and spindle measurements should be taken with the spindle being measured at multiple locations.

It's not a airplane

If your having Issues It's not a bad idea

 

[tyjova]

I have a couple of questions for you. If you only torque the inner nut to 30, will it rotate? And then at 45, are you just trying to rotate the rotor by hand, or with some leverage like the wheel on the hub or a screw driver in the side of the rotor? Occassionally I've had to get a little more leverage to break in new bearings for a few rotations

Torqued to 30 I don't think it would rotate at all. Or very little with quite a bit of force. Mostly all by hand just on the hub itself. I tried with the wheel on to get some leverage but it wouldn't budge, though I didn't give it a ton of force. I considered trying to push a bit harder on it, but didn't want to end up in a worse spot of course.

 

[ZackR]

When you installed the new wheel bearing was it seated all the way? It's been a long time but I recall having to use a bearing race driver and a hammer to really get it fully seated.

 

[landtank]

Can’t tell from the picture but have you maybe used a rear bearing seal by mistake. They have a lip on the seal that will bind when assembled on to he front.

 

[jonheld]

Can’t tell from the picture but have you maybe used a rear bearing seal by mistake. They have a lip on the seal that will bind when assembled on to he front.

I'm going with this. It sure looks like the wrong seal to me.

 

[tyjova]

Thanks so much for the help everybody, quick update! Sorry for the hard to tell pictures, I did use front seals so that wasn't the issue.

Took the hub on and off another handful of times trying to nail down where it was binding up. To get a better view of the situation I actually pulled off the rotor since that was what was blocking a majority of the view at the rear of the hub where it seemed to be sticking. I actually was going to put new rotors on that I had anyway so figured it wouldn't hurt to check. With the rotor off I put the hub back on and it seated in there and spun absolutely perfectly. Tightened down the nuts and there was absolutely zero issues anymore. For the hell of it I threw on the new rotor to check and re installed the hub and again it seated and spun perfectly even when tightened down. Fully reassembled finally, and still zero issues. Long story short, still no idea really what the problem was. Maybe it was related to the rotor getting caught up on something like the dust shield or something else, but whatever it was, putting on the new rotor seemed to alleviate whatever the binding up problem was. I'll keep an eye on it as I drive around to make sure there are no problems, but fingers crossed the mystery issue is gone. All that work and now it's on to the driver's side. At least with how many times I've had that thing on and off hopefully the second side will go quite a bit more quickly. I feel like I've studied that hub setup and gone through the repair manual so much over the last week that I should be able to do it in my sleep. Thanks again so much for all the helpful tips and ideas!

 

[JoeCova]

Damn it I wanted a juicy ending and all I got was Fin. lol. Glad you got it fixed.

 

[tyjova]

Damn it I wanted a juicy ending and all I got was Fin. lol. Glad you got it fixed.

Hahaha sorry to disappoint the masses. Fingers crossed there’s not a part 2 to the story but if there is I’ll be sure to keep you in the loop