I have a 93 civic coupe (ej1) with a B16 and a 5 lug swap from a JDM ITR. The front wheel bearings went once and I replaced them with CRV front wheel bearings and didn't think anything of it.

Now after 6 months, both the front wheel bearings are really loose and noisy again. Has anyone else ran into this problem? The axles are 32mm B-series axles with 36mm Prelude outers? Is that axle configuration too long, and what axles would be best to run?

Thanks in advance.

 

did you replace them with sealed bearings? and did you have a shop press them in or did you bang em in?

 

They were replaced by sealed OEM CRV bearings which I had pressed in. Everything but the sway bar is stock ITR so I am stumped as to why the bearings went so fast. Right now I'm leaning towards the axles being the wrong length but I don't know if a 32mm B series axle plus a Prelude outer ends up the same as an ITR.