Possible wheel bearing?

[dant]

I have just bought a 1993 k reg 440 xi with 109k on the clock for £99, it would cost that for a set of tyres for my other 440 so I took the risk, the car is pristine but there seems to be a noise coming from the front drivers side wheel its like a whining sound.

I jacked up the car and span the wheel and there seemed to be a juddering sound like d d d d d d. Is this the wheel bearing or something more serious?


Dan

i belive it is the bearing and unless you have a hub puller i would get somone else to do it. when i did one a few years ago i had to cut the bearing off with an angle grinder as it was on there nice and tight.

[dant]

I have now noticed the if you steer to the right the noise disappears.


Dan

PS how easy is a hub to change if I did not want to remove the bearing from the existing hub?

[AdamskiC70]

Hi the best way to test which one it is, is to jack each wheel up put your hand on the spring and spin the wheel if the wheel bearing has gone then you'll feel the roughness though the spring/skocker as you spin the wheel.
You will need a press to change the bearing or volvos tool for it.

Adam

Hi Dan, not being funny but if you only spent £99 on the whole car do you really want to bother spending some money to fix this fault? Whether wheel bearing, cv joint, driveshaft it is likely to just slowly get worse and more noisy and if you can't really feel any vibration then I'd just ignore it at least for now, you may find that some other problems crop up over the coming weeks and then you decide to cut your losses and dump the car as it was only a 100 quid. Wheras if you spend money fixing this fault you may then feel you've invested money in the car if something else crops up soon and then before you know it you've got a nice money pit going on!

Just my opinion...

Pete

Originally Posted by peteS40

Hi Dan, not being funny but if you only spent £99 on the whole car do you really want to bother spending some money to fix this fault? Whether wheel bearing, cv joint, driveshaft it is likely to just slowly get worse and more noisy and if you can't really feel any vibration then I'd just ignore it at least for now, you may find that some other problems crop up over the coming weeks and then you decide to cut your losses and dump the car as it was only a 100 quid. Wheras if you spend money fixing this fault you may then feel you've invested money in the car if something else crops up soon and then before you know it you've got a nice money pit going on!

Just my opinion...

Pete

thats a good point