In regards to a "major" front wheel bearing failure, I know of one. My
father owned a 77 Birchhaven with ~ 85K on it. He was trying to sell The
birchhaven, and had it on a lot (he had "upgraded" to a 74 Sequoia with only
43 K on it).
We went to pick it up, and I was following the coach and observed from a
"normal" distance (I first noticed it from nearly 200 feet) back that one of
the front wheels had a major wobble to it. Stopped checked it out, the tire
was worn rather severely from the wobble. Nursed it home, and proceeded to
rip the front end apart.
We found that one of the front wheel bearings had a cracked race. The
bearing was totally destroyed. For that matter we had a real fun time of
pulling what was left of the bearing out of the carrier.
We believe someone either dropped a wheel into a deep pothole at speed, or
hammered a curb.
The moral to that story is if you put a coach on a lot check the buggers out
and keep an eye on the rig. I am quite confident that we would rather have
put the time and cash into coach he was going to keep rather than sell.
- -----Original Message-----
From: Gcbr
To: gmcmotorhome
Date: Thursday, November 05, 1998 5:13 PM
Subject: GMC: Front wheel bearings
>Good Folks
>
>I really must do this again. I must take a poll on this front wheel
>bearing myth. You do not have to post it to the list if you dont want
>to just write to me. The last time I ask for major failures. Did not get
>what I would call a big time failure. Got one that had some problems
>that were traced to possible bad wheel bearings.
>
>This time I will say how many people have had a front wheel bearing
>go bad. Please include how many miles it had on it--or when was the
>last time it was serviced. What kind of grease were you using. If you
>dont know tell me that. I have this real need to see if this is a myth.
>With 250 of us on the list I cant believe there is only 1 person that may
>have had a bearing problem.
>
>Please even if you have never responded to this list PLEASE let me hear
>from you on this one.
>
>Take Care my address is Gcbr
>Arch
>
father owned a 77 Birchhaven with ~ 85K on it. He was trying to sell The
birchhaven, and had it on a lot (he had "upgraded" to a 74 Sequoia with only
43 K on it).
We went to pick it up, and I was following the coach and observed from a
"normal" distance (I first noticed it from nearly 200 feet) back that one of
the front wheels had a major wobble to it. Stopped checked it out, the tire
was worn rather severely from the wobble. Nursed it home, and proceeded to
rip the front end apart.
We found that one of the front wheel bearings had a cracked race. The
bearing was totally destroyed. For that matter we had a real fun time of
pulling what was left of the bearing out of the carrier.
We believe someone either dropped a wheel into a deep pothole at speed, or
hammered a curb.
The moral to that story is if you put a coach on a lot check the buggers out
and keep an eye on the rig. I am quite confident that we would rather have
put the time and cash into coach he was going to keep rather than sell.
- -----Original Message-----
From: Gcbr
To: gmcmotorhome
Date: Thursday, November 05, 1998 5:13 PM
Subject: GMC: Front wheel bearings
>Good Folks
>
>I really must do this again. I must take a poll on this front wheel
>bearing myth. You do not have to post it to the list if you dont want
>to just write to me. The last time I ask for major failures. Did not get
>what I would call a big time failure. Got one that had some problems
>that were traced to possible bad wheel bearings.
>
>This time I will say how many people have had a front wheel bearing
>go bad. Please include how many miles it had on it--or when was the
>last time it was serviced. What kind of grease were you using. If you
>dont know tell me that. I have this real need to see if this is a myth.
>With 250 of us on the list I cant believe there is only 1 person that may
>have had a bearing problem.
>
>Please even if you have never responded to this list PLEASE let me hear
>from you on this one.
>
>Take Care my address is Gcbr
>Arch
>
