MidcoastScooby

Just freshening up a LH brake caliper on an L-Series, new seal and boot, re-painted 14" offroad rims with fresh rubber. Next, oil pump needs attention.

Thanks for confirming that, now just have to stop my son driving the thing so I can get the conical washer and drum off. It's been quiet for the last 2 days...so he tells me...then again with the volume he plays music at I'm surprised he'd hear anything at all. Geez I sound like my old man when I was 17!

Hi everyone, I'm a newbie here from the mid north coast (east) of Australia. I handed down my '89 4WD Wagon (L-series) to my son and I've just replaced the right side rear complete wheel bearings. It was good for 600klm but the old problem has arisen of a squelching/squeaking noise coming from around the rear hub somewhere. I get a wee bit of movement up and down when I grasp the wheel and jiggle. I've pulled the drum off and inspected the bearings (outer end only) and all is in place unlike the collapsed outer cage previously. Also, when the wheel is on the ground and immediately after it starts to squeak, grasping the wheel and wiggling it nearly duplicates the sound (creaking noise with every pull of a side). I've removed the hub and put it back together and the noise returns after 10 minutes driving, each squelch coincides with the wheel rotation so the slower you go the more pronounced it is, faster only makes the noise less evident but it is there. I only have a wee torque wrench which is useless with this hub nut, but have adjusted the nut with gentle pursuasive tapping with a drift and hammer and guessed the 177Nm (220ft/lb) torque required. Interestingly, like previously the hub nut seems to become loose even when it is staked with the large cotter pin. I accepted that previously tightening it up too much probably crushed the bearings but I have been very careful not to over do the new ones. So, why is the nut loosening, it seems to also coincide with when it squelches? Does the coned spacer just in front of the drum (before washer and hub nut) have anything to do with this? Is the hub nut and this conical spacer consumable items? Can it even be the CV joint but I doubt it. Any help will be greatly appreciated. It's driving me nuts!