Any time I make a sharp right turn I hear a metal-on-metal grinding noise that seems to fade as I go down a straight away, any idea's?
if you think you know what it is, could you give me an idea on the price range or if it's something I could fix on my own, I have moderate expirience fixing small things on cars, once i figure it out.
2007-02-25 22:34:05 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
There's only two options here mate ... brakes or bearings. I don't think Drum brakes would do it either so only if the sound is coming from an axle with Disc brakes. Which means it's likely your bearings .... Jack up the axle you think it's coming from and put it on stands. Chock the other wheels and release the parking brake. Then try to shake the tire back and forth with your hands and feel if there is any play. If it can move back and forth it's probably worn out bearings. you can pop of the hub cap or take the wheel of and the center cap (which ever you have) and pop off the dust cap with a flat head screw driver or similar .... inspect the bearings to see if they are dry or if there is any dirt or crap in there. Remove, Clean with a grease remover, and regrease after thoroughly drying. Or Just replace them with new freshly greased bearings. Find out what your vehicle specs are for preloading the bearings (how many pounds of torque) If you wanna do it "backwoods style" you can tighten it gently and spin the wheel slowly while you finish up ... when the wheel starts to feel resistance give it another 1/4 turn and stick the cotter pin back in. Drive it around the block a couple times, prop it back up and try to spin it again by hand and check for play again... if it feels loose re-tighten ... if it feels tight drive around the block a couple more times and test again. It should spin clean but not have any play at all. If you get it too tight it will overheat and seize the bearings. That's why it's best to let your fingers do the walking and find out what the torque specs are. If you don't have a torque wrench, by the way, pep-boys or autozone or any autoparts store will loan them to you free just as long as you give them a deposit.
If it's the brakes dude just get new pads.
Good Luck!
2007-02-25 23:03:13 · answer #1 · answered by bigtjeeper 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Get it on a lift. Turn your wheels to the right, as far as possible. Leave it in 'N' or out of gear, and leave emergency brake OFF. After it's elevated, manually spin your wheels, all of them, right and left. Sounds of that kind can easily fool you.
It's possible you might even be able to see the problem without spinning the wheels, but wouldn't bet on it.
Good luck
PS it could be a disk rubbing a splash guard ( the guard covers the inside of the disk )
2007-02-25 22:46:43 · answer #2 · answered by Mack 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is your vehicle front or rear drive?
Does it have a differential, flexible coupling drives, etc. in the rear of the vehicle?
Do your tyres show irregular wear patterns?
You may have a simple bearing problem that causes the wheel/brake assembly to lean over onto itself with the lateral forces of cornering.
2007-02-25 22:50:34 · answer #3 · answered by Bushrat 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like wheel bearings mate
2007-02-26 00:45:35 · answer #4 · answered by paul w 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe a bad driver's side wheel bearing.
2007-02-25 22:50:40 · answer #5 · answered by bobweb 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
check ur wheel bearings n its brake pads,maybe one of them is defective.the price is not much around 100 bucks.
2007-02-25 22:42:19 · answer #6 · answered by robert KS LEE. 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
first i look at the lug bolts, make sure they tight, now it could be the brake shoes are bad, are a bearing going out, , i also look at the drive joint
2007-02-25 22:40:06 · answer #7 · answered by ghostwalker077 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋