When a vehicle is driven regularly, rarely is it in one spot long enough to detect more than an occasional driveline fluid drip. So, unless something beneath necessitates crawling under to repair, the ...

Sometimes the most pivotal components of a mechanism are hidden behind the scenes—out of sight. Without the magic behind the curtains, the system is rendered useless. In this case, we are talking ...

Being the most important parts that allow the wheels to spin on a vehicle means that the bearings go through a lot of strain. Not only they have to leave the wheels free to spin, but they also need to ...

Few things are more annoying than seal leaks of any kind. They stain the driveway and lose all-important lubrication at the same time. Even more frustrating is replacing a seal in a differential that ...

The lowly and often taken-for-granted wheel bearing hasn’t really changed much in design or function since the dawn of the automotive age save the move to incorporate them into wheel hub and bearing ...

Greasing wheel bearings can get very messy very quickly, in a very kindergarten kind of way. The trick is to embrace the ooze, because greasing is the fun and easy part. The hard bit comes when ...

In my 50 years in the auto repair industry, I can’t recall one good story about wheel bearings. Most involve some sort of brake system failure, tires exploding, or fire from a seized red-hot bearing ...