Grinding sound from the front

daveosubi · Post by **daveosubi** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 4:43 pm

Drove to a music festival on the weekend and just made it home (I think) with a new sound. It's making a grinding sound from the front, it seems to be from the drivers side more than than passenger, and the sound progressively worsened.

Im not sure what the problem is but here's what ive seen:
*The two front swaybar bushes are stuffed
*drivers side cv boot is twisted
* the sound was intermittent and sometimes would go away around a slight bend.

Would would the porblem most likely be cv or swaybay related, both or something else?

stamp_licker · Post by **stamp_licker** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 5:24 pm

Cv boot twisted as in torn ? any grease in the cv's? Bearings etc plenty of stuff to check.

BrennyV · Post by **BrennyV** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 5:52 pm

I would recommend a new set of wheel bearings, new bushes, new cv boots and a good clean and repack. then test. if its still there obviously there is more options.

D3V1L · Post by **D3V1L** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 6:07 pm

my money on wheel bearings....if its dry cv or something it would be more clunky then grinding i would think

dave

AlpineRaven · Post by **AlpineRaven** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 6:59 pm

Brakes jamming up? otherwise it sounds like wheel bearings..
Cheers
AP

Matatak · Post by **Matatak** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 7:18 pm

check ur castle nut to. maybe loose.

but do as BrennyV says

Morcs · Post by **Morcs** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 6:22 pm

Yeah check the castle nut loose wheel bearings make a very scary noise. Wheel bearing number is 6207 get them from a bearing supplier heaps cheaper then repco etc. Also get the sealed type two seals are better then one. i would say that the seals are better on the bearings rather then standard suby ones for water penitration/mud etc.

daveosubi · Post by **daveosubi** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 3:55 pm

ok sorry for the late reply

I ended up taking it to a mechanic, I bought some new wheel bearings for it aswell in a last ditched atemp to have it going for easter well it wasnt to be.

The Cv joint was the problem, the boot did have little pin holes in it, I think it was from the twisting/streatching. Not sure how this happened the joint was less than 20000km old, maybe I tore a hole in the boot and slowly killed it.

Had the new wheel bearings put in to, he said the left need replacing, which is weird because the grinding probem was from the right. Thanks morcs saved over half of the cost from repco and was able to get sealed ones.

Thanks too everyone else too

I also had new king/kyb's put in the front and a wheel alignment, now im happy again