Hubs...

[Stang5lgt]

I was wondering if there is sealed hub out there that people have had good luck with? I bought a Timken one and have replaced it twice under warrenty. I am taking back and getting my money back this time. Sick of getting 3k miles and then it gets loose.

 

[WB9YZU]

I was wondering if there is sealed hub out there that people have had good luck with? I bought a Timken one and have replaced it twice under warrenty. I am taking back and getting my money back this time. Sick of getting 3k miles and then it gets loose.

I suspect you are incorrectly torquing the axle nut. IIRC it's something like 150lbs.
Anyone have their spec book out?

Ron

 

[Frank Z]

Hub nut torque is 175 Ft. Lbs.

I recently installed some new BCA-America hubs from Advance Auto. So far they have not blown up and killed any Nuns and Orphans.

 

[philip_g]

there was a thread not long ago in the main forum on this, many had said the ones that rockauto.com sells were good, and cheap, but I don't remember the brand name.

 

[WB9YZU]

That's where I got my set. I replaced them some 30K ago, no issues.

Ron

 

[Stang5lgt]

I suspect you are incorrectly torquing the axle nut. IIRC it's something like 150lbs.
Anyone have their spec book out?

Ron

I just torque them to 80lbs. I thought that might be too much. I have put like 6 of these in. And the Timken brand is only one I have had prob with gone through 2 on my XJ and one on my ZJ. All Timken.:hang: The rear part that is pressed on keeps seperating. And hubs falls to two pieces. I have some used ones to get by with for now. Until I find some better ones.

 

[RTicUL8]

Is that your driveway?

I think I found your problem


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[Stang5lgt]

Rock sells the Timken and BCA.

 

[Stang5lgt]

Is that your driveway?

I think I found your problem


.

Yeah that was my 99 XJ it is gone now. I lost my alternator that day. :roll: That Jeep is gone now. I miss it. Now I just have my 89 2 door XJ. I love it. Been a good Jeep to me. 215k miles and still ticking.

 

[JJacobs]

Sounds like you'll be paying a little closer attention to torque specs from here out! They really don't like to be undertorqued, and they really, really don't like having no stub shaft at all clamping the bearing together. The trip I found that out cost me an extra 600 bucks, frostbite, girlfriend's car wreck, and an attempted robbery (I think) all because I didn't think to put the stub shaft back in after a roadside diff repair.

 

[Stang5lgt]

I use 300 ft lbs Impact when I tighten them up. Like said never had prob with other ones just the timken ones.

 

[JJacobs]

I just torque them to 80lbs. I thought that might be too much. I have put like 6 of these in.

I was going off this...

 

[Stang5lgt]

Well that 80lbs is min I have torque them. I just can't believe the half shaft ends hold the hub together. I know there is times I didn't torque them that much and have not had a prob.

 

[Frank Z]

Get your believer fixed.

 

[dbswede]

I thought 175 was how tight you could get it with a half inch breaker and a big ass cheater bar...I am still running stock hub bearings.
db

 

[Stang5lgt]

Get your believer fixed.

I believe it. My Haynes book says 175lbs. Time for the cheater bar.

 

[RangerRick]

Last Fall Fling I installed a set of axles in my XJ before flat towing it to Moab. Torqued to 125, I had to replace them before I returned to Longmont. What a pain.