E-bay 4kq: Good news, ugly discovery, one minor q...

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Well, chances are it had that play before he changed the bearing too, Audi strut bearings are notoriously "loose", any up and down movement either implies that the top nut is loose or that the play is in the bearing, and if the bearing is anything but brand new there is likely some play in it.  Bearings are a $15 part, I'm in the habit of changing them whenever I have the strut off within reason.  He mentiones that he already addressed tightening, unless he's just not being careful, it sounds like a SB to me.

Javad

>Javad,
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>You are jmping the gun here.
>Replacing the wheel bearings would not make the strut bearings go bad.
>Most likely the small nut/fastener holding the bearing came loose when he was tightening the big 22mm nut with an impact gun BTDT.  This is due to the rotational difference... tightening one will cause the other to try to loosen.
>This is why it is very important to make sure that either that fastener is very tight or you use proper tools (allan key and offset 22mm closed wrench works well).
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>Before you get a new bearing just take the nut off and retighten that fastener, can easily be done in the driveway and should take about 10min.
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>Hope this helps.
>Cheers
>Martin Pajak
>http://www.quattro.ca
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>You need a new strut bearing.
>Javad
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>In a message dated 2/14/2003 6:00:14 AM Pacific Standard Time,
>porter_dog at hotmail.com writes:
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>> Minor q- to swap the bearings out I pulled the uprights and used a press.
>> It went smoothly, but now I've got a bit of vertical freeplay at the strut
>> bushing on the pass side.  It acts like I just didn't get the main nut at
>> the top tight enough, but I used an impact gun.  Any insights?
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