[Vwdiesel] Front end bearing noise (again)

[Mark Shepherd]

No-one shot me down over the possibility of the noise coming from the diff.
area... I'm happy to be right but if I'm wrong I need to be told lest I
spend my life living under an illusion...
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: <LBaird119 at aol.com>
To: <vwdiesel at vwfans.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 6:36 AM
Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] Front end bearing noise (again)


> At the moment, I'm thinking of running down the road at 70 mph,
> and stopping without breaking.  Then taking a passive IR therometer/
> radiometer, and measuring the hub temperature.  My concern is that
> there are other factors which could have a greater error contribution
> than the heat of a failing bearing.  Slightly dragging pad, etc.
>
>
>   I was just discussing this with a friend the other day.  He mentioned
> using his IR thermometer for exactly that purpose!  Said he had some
> that had a bad bearing but hard to tell which side.  Drive a bit and
check
> the temps, replace the hotter one and tada!  Something like 60F I think
> he said one was.  The difficult part is shooting it in EXACTLY the same
> spot.  He mentioned using the center of each hubcap.
>      Loren
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