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<x-charset iso-8859-1>From: "Jim Adney" <jadney@vwtype3.org> > > > > Are you sure that the bearing need to be replaced? They very > > > seldom fail. > > > > 127k miles on the car. Rumbling from rear which increases when > > cornering. Surely not CVs since they don't take the load ? I'll do the > > pair since the other must be almost gone too. > > I would suspect the CV joint first. Are the CV boots completely > intact? Try grabbing the axle and yanking it axially back and forth a > few times. Often this alone will fix the sound, at least for awhile, or > change it, just by virtue of redistributing the grease in there and/or > leaving the CV joints in a different position. If it has ANY effect on > the sound then I'd say that the problem is more likely there than in > the bearings. > > CV joints are much more trouble prone than the bearings, and they > do fail with sounds that change with cornering because the > suspension squats differently and the CV angles change. Ah. I hadn't thought of that. Thanks. > I'd just hate to see you go to all this effort and discover that it fixed > nothing. I'd hate to go to all that effort too. Its below zero (C, not F) here ATM and far too cold to be working outside. A quick tap with a mallet is my kind of fix :-) Watch this space. Matt. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Search old messages on the Web! Visit http://www.vwtype3.org/list/ </x-charset>