Rear Wheel Bearing

[Jacques Fournier]

One point I forgot to clarify.  The squeal/grinding
only occurs once the car is about to stop.  It's not
continuous as soon as I begin braking.  It also only
has this problem when the rear is loaded.  Like when
I'm going forward up hill and braking gradually.  If I
stop abruptly, the noise never happens.  It also
doesn't happen when going backwards down by
driveway???????  This is getting old. I will grease
the guide pins however and may go ahead and dismantle
the whole thing once again and repack.

From: "Lundy, Andrew" <lundy at dmww.com>
To: "'Jacques Fournier'" <jfgte8296 at yahoo.com>,
quattro at audifans.com
Subject:
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 11:05:17 -0600

Your brakes are probably dragging.  It's quite common
with these
brakes.
You may be able to fix it by greasing the guide pins.

HTH!!
---
Andrew Lundy
90 80q
99 A6q

-----Original Message-----
From: Jacques Fournier [mailto:jfgte8296 at yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 10:52 AM
To: quattro at audifans.com
Subject: Rear Wheel Bearing


I have an '88 non-Quattro 90.  I replaced the rear
right side wheel bearings and races about 5 months
ago.  I started getting a periodic squealing/grinding
noise when I break a couple weeks ago.  I pulled the
bearings and checked them and they look fine.  So do
the races.  I re-packed them and tightened according
to the Bentley spec.  I am still getting that noise.
The wheel is solid.  (no wobble with the car jacked
up) so I'm lost.  Any ideas?  Is it possible I over
tightened them the first time and messed up the works?
 Is the "tighten until you can move the washer with a
screwdriver" spec for real?



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