Just a little Shimmy

[mrdew]

I would drive the car and it had a nice shimmy in the rear end but nothing to bad and I thought that maybe the brake was occasionally sticking etc, so I pulled the wheel double checked everything and still no luck. So i was driving to pick up my friend a good 15min back road drive and the car was "scary" around certain turns, so I limped it to pick her up and limped her back to the closest place that I could look at it out of the rain. I pulled the driver read wheel off along with the rear brakes (disc) and hub and the axle was completely loose in the housing. I then proceeded to unbolt the axle and remove the stub. If you did not know what you were looking at you would never know that there were ever two bearings in there. I will have pictures soon, I did not have my camera on me.

[c.d.iesel]

well probably during the drum-to-disk 'conversion'

the stub axle bearing/adjustment got upset and caused the failure.

(or it was tired and failed on it's own)

the nut shouldn't come off easily on the side of the road

without a huge breaker bar and a curse or two

because the stub axle 'just came out' easily,

the splines are toast. The stub axle fits very snug into the splined hub

and requires mucho effort to disassemble

your bearings are toast from all the end play

you need new stub axle, hub, bearing kit

don't think we need any photos

but it's good for show-n-tell

[mrdew]

I was not able to dissasemble it on the side of the road. I pulled off at the firehouse to assess the damage. I used a pulled to remove the hut and it took my buddy and I to break the nut loose. When I say that the axle came out easily I mean that it came out once everything was completely undone. The splines are untouched on the axle, and if they were damaged I would have had a worse time getting the hub off with the puller. From the looks of it, it just needs new seals and bearings.

[mrdew]

When something breaks I also like to share photos for reference for other members. It is good practice I believe. But anyways when you say that my bearings are toast, they are obliterated......aka no more bearings haha.

[mrdew]