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Originally Posted by zgn
Well the passenger side rear axle is finally off. I beat the living mess out of the spindle and it will need a bit of grinding to allow me to put the new axle nut on.
Removing this brings back a memory of when I had new tires put on at Firestone in Inverness, AL on HWY 280 about 6 years ago. Well they broke a wheel stud on this axle and they replaced it with another. Knowing what I know now they had to remove the axle to replace the stud. The next day I drove down to Flordia where my rearend, I thought, started makeing noise. When I got back I replaced the rearend and transmission with a new one, as 2nd and 5th were hard to shift into. Then I drove the car a few miles and back to the shop where it sat it idle for a few mins untill it just cut off. Well that was the last time my motor ran for the next 2.5 years. It had a bad oil injector and it scored up my rotors and I lost compression.
OK back to the Axle.
Question: when you remove the axle what are the chances of the original bearings going back into the axle and still working properly?
I have been driving this way to long with this roaring noise and now it is time to silence it.
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They are designed to be replaced once removed. If you try to reuse them you will be doing it all again in a day. Real pain in the ass if you break a wheel stud.
Dan