Front hub grinding?
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Front hub grinding?
I have a mysterious grinding sound coming from my front end. It's a '00 X Limited V10 4x4. It has manual locking hubs, not the auto ones, with the hubs unlocked and in 2wd I get a grinding sound that comes and goes coming from the front. If I lock the right front hub the sound doesn't occur and if I have both hubs unlocked and it starts grinding, I can flip the switch to 4wd high and it stops. Anyone have any ideas? My companies mechanic says it sounds like the hub is not releasing fully.
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I have had the same problem with my 00 PSD Ltd Excursion. I have the auto hubs with the manual dial. I took the hubs off and took them apart to clean them. Grinding noise went away for about a month but now it is back again. The stock hubs really are junk. Time to get some Warn hubs for it!
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Found the problem. The axle shaft on the passenger side snapped and took out the bearings, hub and locking hub. Snow coming tonight so it's needed to plow tomorrow morning so it goes back in Thursday to get fixed.
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Originally Posted by Downriver Thunde
I have a mysterious grinding sound coming from my front end. It's a '00 X Limited V10 4x4. It has manual locking hubs, not the auto ones, with the hubs unlocked and in 2wd I get a grinding sound that comes and goes coming from the front. If I lock the right front hub the sound doesn't occur and if I have both hubs unlocked and it starts grinding, I can flip the switch to 4wd high and it stops. Anyone have any ideas? My companies mechanic says it sounds like the hub is not releasing fully.
Being with the age of the truck; from what you are describing is known as the wheel hub bearing assembly . I've replaced mine a couple of times on my Super Duty (I have just about 400,000 on it).
Make sure you order new studs along with it, it'll make your life alot easier then trying to reuse the existing.
I would notice the grinding more when going into a slight turn at speeds.
All you need is basic tools and a snap ring tool kit in order to remove it. Not that painful of a job.
When I replaced the driver front intially, it was maybe 10k miles later I had to replace the passenger side.
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Wow, that's expensive. I've had the same vibration for more than a week. The bearing is dangling around the passenger side u-joint.
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I have a 2000 ex and the grinding stops when i have both manually locked... when i have them in auto, it grinds very bad. If the drivers side is locked and the passenger side is auto it grinds too. I know this becuase of accident, and i dont know if it will grind vise versa.
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