grinding whining
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grinding whining So I've had my rearend out for awhile getting the pinion bearing replaced....and today I reinstalled it, got everything together and took it for a drive. I already knew my rear rotors were a little warped and the brake pads were down to about 2mm...so I figured that was causing the metal on metal grinding noise.
I take my car back up, put the rear on jackstands and take off the wheels.... I start the car and give it some gas and the grinding/whining is there alright! So I take off the calipers and rotors real quick and try again.
No more noise! So I head to the Zone and get new rotors and pads, install those...the driver side is still grinding/whining.
What could it be? I thought I narrowed it down to brakes, because it won't do it with no brakes on the car....
Hmmmm... hopefully not a wheel bearing??????? (it is NOT the gears, they are quiet as a mouse)
I'm not sure if my method of testing was correct...but hopefully it has something to do with the brakes since no noises are made when the rotor/caliper is off.
I take my car back up, put the rear on jackstands and take off the wheels.... I start the car and give it some gas and the grinding/whining is there alright! So I take off the calipers and rotors real quick and try again.
No more noise! So I head to the Zone and get new rotors and pads, install those...the driver side is still grinding/whining.
What could it be? I thought I narrowed it down to brakes, because it won't do it with no brakes on the car....
Hmmmm... hopefully not a wheel bearing??????? (it is NOT the gears, they are quiet as a mouse)
I'm not sure if my method of testing was correct...but hopefully it has something to do with the brakes since no noises are made when the rotor/caliper is off.
Last edited by jetlag; Apr 21, 2008 at 08:24 PM.
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Wow, it was so stupidly simple... I feel as if I just lost as many brain cells as I would have if I watched American Idol and Survivor at the same time.
It seems that when I was reinstalling my rearend, I bent the dust cover on the driver side and it was rubbing my rotor!
Wow! Haha.. Thanks BlackSS for reminding me to try it with just the rotor on.
It seems that when I was reinstalling my rearend, I bent the dust cover on the driver side and it was rubbing my rotor!
Wow! Haha.. Thanks BlackSS for reminding me to try it with just the rotor on.
haha when I bowed my 10 bolt housing and snapped my driver side axel it tore up my dust cover really bad took me forever to get it fixed then the parking brake was rubbing also..
Glad to see you got it all fixed up though.
Glad to see you got it all fixed up though.
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