Wheel Bearing Issue

[1robwalker]

Hi I have just recently got a 2000 Saxo VTS 1.6 16V. The front nearside wheel bearing needed replacing. I thought it needed to be the 37mm bearing but that would not work and so the lad doing the work got the 35mm bearing as it was a 35mm which came off it. When I went to get it tracked and balanced there was still loads of play in the wheel. Took it back to get it looked at and the circlip had come off. Put a circlip back on and it looked and felt tight (no play in the wheel). Took it back again to get tracked and balanced and there again is a huge amount of play in the wheel.

Would anyone have images and dimensions of hub, bearings and driveshafts? I need to find out if what is there is for that car or not.

Thanks in advance.

[sri_130]

http://www.saxperience.com/forum/sho...d.php?t=447183

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Sounds like the old tapered vs non-tapered.

[MartinObviously]

Originally Posted by 1robwalker

Hi I have just recently got a 2000 Saxo VTS 1.6 16V. The front nearside wheel bearing needed replacing. I thought it needed to be the 37mm bearing but that would not work and so the lad doing the work got the 35mm bearing as it was a 35mm which came off it. When I went to get it tracked and balanced there was still loads of play in the wheel. Took it back to get it looked at and the circlip had come off. Put a circlip back on and it looked and felt tight (no play in the wheel). Took it back again to get tracked and balanced and there again is a huge amount of play in the wheel.

Would anyone have images and dimensions of hub, bearings and driveshafts? I need to find out if what is there is for that car or not.

Thanks in advance.

The big circlip really shouldn't come out, if that's popped off again whoever fitting it clearly isn't cleaning the slot that the clip sits into properly - in which case your driveshafts are probably the correct type.

however, it sounds like it's had a new driveshaft (maybe before you bought it?) and the wrong one has maybe been fitted.

the 35mm size is for the older style "flat" driveshafts. That's the shaft you need (it's the thin nut with no protruding thread with the nut fitted). The shaft face is what clamps the centres of the wheel bearing together.

If it's the wrong shaft, it'll have a fat nut or a thin nut with about an inch of thread sticking out.

[1robwalker]

OK so it's the drives haft which requires the thin nut I should be getting for that car then. I think it has the one with longer threads and the nut that came off was the thicker one but with the 35mm bearing.

[MartinObviously]

Originally Posted by 1robwalker

OK so it's the drives haft which requires the thin nut I should be getting for that car then. I think it has the one with longer threads and the nut that came off was the thicker one but with the 35mm bearing.

Yes sounds like a driveshaft and nut from a later model has been fitted.

As a bodge, you can actually grind the taper so that the shaft sits flat against the rear of the bearing. if you're stuck. With the shaft fitted you will be able to see the gap if it's wrong if you look from the back of the hub where the shaft goes in.

[1robwalker]

Turned out to be a knackered wheel hub. It was worn.

[VeiRoN]

Never seen a knackered wheel hub, usually it's just the bearing that gets in two pieces and needs replacing.
Wonder how that happened.