OMG My Wheel Bearing * Video *
The movement your wheel has does not seem possible for a bad bearing.
Your bearing bolts down to a spindle and hub is pressed into it. Your half shaft comes through the hub and is held by the nut on the outside (wheel side). When bearing goes out it gives your wheel vertical movement (up and down). Your wheel pivots in and out on the center.
I would first check your wheel nuts.
Are you using stock wheel studs or are they aftermarket?
Your lug nuts, are they open end or not (does the stud goes all the way through if you keep on tightening it)?
If you say that your lug nuts are torqued to specs. Your issue might be combination of the wheel and lug nuts. If you have OEM studs, your aftermarket wheel might be thinner than OEM wheel and studs come out further than they do on OEM wheels. If nuts that you are using are close end nuts, you are simply torquing nut on the stud without actually torquing the wheel. And that causes your wheel to wobble like it does.
The fact that your rotors do not move in the video make me believe that it is something else and not the bearing. Both rotor and wheel rest on the same hub that is pressed in to the bearing. How can one move and other one not?
If you take it apart and find out it is a bearing, please take a picture of the damage, I wanna see it.
I'm going to work on it this weekend, lugs are after market open ended shank style, I have worked on many cars and you are right the wobble looks more like wheel than the hub, but I'll shoot video from underneath where you can see it better, I checked all the other sides and they were firm and no play. I checked the 4 bolts that hold the hub in place and they were tight, there is a grinding sound similar to where brakes wear down metal to metal.
Lugs don't keep turning and I'm torquing at 80lbs, plus it is not consistent with the other sides, studs not stripped either. Hope the problem isn't anything worse though
video or shens.
My wheel bearing was also this bad on my 05 g35x in the rear and I did not notice any wobble or shake while driving it. But when I was replacing my rear control arms with Spc I noticed the shake of the wheel when I pushed on it with my hand exactly like this.
Replaced the wheel bearing and everything was fixed
Replaced the wheel bearing and everything was fixed
I fixed the car already weird thing now is that I have rear camber set at 1.8 degrees and toe as close to spec as possible but I am getting horrible rubbing on that same side , height same and everything appears to be the same , both rear fenders rolled but that same back side rubs .
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