help wheel bearings keep coming loose

[damo13]

ive put new front wheel bearings in my gu and for some reason the wheel bearing keeps coming loose ill drive it about 100 meters and its loose again ive re done its about 5 times any ideas please i need my truck for work


cheers damo

[ludacris]

Did you use the little locking screws with the locking plate.

Cris

[damo13]

hey cris yeah mate ive used the two screws and the locking plate, thats what i cant understand how its coming loose?

[PGS 4WD]

Did you knock the new bearing cones all the way home? Sounds like they are moving in.

Joel

[PGS 4WD]

Did you knock the new bearing cones all the way home? Sounds like they are moving in.

Joel

[its aford not a nissan]

there is 2 torque settings for fitting new bearings and cones , one to seat the bearing cone in place and one for the bearing tension

cant remember what they are sorry

[project_mq]

first is 150nm loosen then 4nm from memory

[ELLSEE]

ive put new front wheel bearings in my gu and for some reason the wheel bearing keeps coming loose ill drive it about 100 meters and its loose again ive re done its about 5 times any ideas please i need my truck for work


cheers damo

Hey mate same thing happened too me and i was pulling my hair out because i knew that i had done everything right and i was getting sick of taking it apart too just have it stuff up 100m down the road. What my problem was that the rear seal wasnt sitting home properly on the back of the rotor, so once ya pop the rotor on give it a good wack with a rubber mallet all the way around as you tighten up the locking nut, this worked a treat for me, every few wacks i could tighten the locking nut up a bit more and when you reach the end and it wont go any tighter then back it off half a turn or so. Hope this is your problem and helps ya out because i know it drove me insane. ~Ell-See