Heres my symptoms.

1. Car shakes at high speeds
2. Ticking sound comming from pass side during acceleration sometimes, gets worse while turning, almost a scraping sound when turning on that side.
3. My negitive camber in my pass wheel looks worse than in my drivers wheel.

Is this a bad bearing?

 

sounds like a bad axle to me, but to check the wheel bearing jack up
the car and see if u can move the tire back and forth. if there is movement
then it si your wheel bearing. and what i mean by back and forth is towards u and away fromu .

 

ok, i will try that, so try to pull the wheel away from the car, than into the car? right?

 

if you wanna check for wheel bearing problems, one way is this...

- jack up the front of your car
- leave your wheels on
- go to the front wheel which you think is having the problem
- grasp the wheel at a 10 and 2 o' clock position
- Wiggle the wheel and if there is any play or sort of knocking sound, you quite possibly may have a wheel bearing issue.




[Modified by Katman, 10:56 PM 10/29/2001]

 

check the cv boot outer and inner on your passenger axle if you see all kinds of grease in your wheel well or have seen in the past

 

I had a bad wheel bearing and I would grab the wheel after jacking the car up and it would have alot of play when I would shake it. It would also make a knocking sound when I would drive it straight.

 

souns like a clicking axle combined with bad ball joints

 

Why is this happening all of a sudden to so many of us? Yesterday I posted a similar problem, along with another fellow HT member.
Weird.

yeah, my problem is very pronounced under acceleration and gets worse as the car heats up, say after 15 min of driving...

 

One thing you may want to check is the CV Joint / axle if you have had it replaced before. I hear that one of the largest suppliers of aftermarket CV Joints/ axles discovered there was a bad batch. Buddy of mine with a Prelude said this was the case for him. As for me, I have an Accord (daily driver), feels like the tires are not balanced and a clicking. Had the tires balanced and rotated (note: watched them balance the tires), and the vibration and clicking noise is still there. Was told it was probably the CV Joint / axle, wheel bearings were checked also. My .02 cents.

 

Not really weird at all, it is a common issue with any vehicle that has a wider wheel than the factory specs recommends + the issue of lowering your car's suspension as well. When your factor this into the vehicle's equation it places great stress across your car's suspension's geometry.

So to sum it all up think of your wheel bearing, ball joints, and axles constantly stressed (as it was not intended to drive or "sit"). You are then bound to wear out any of these parts in a shorter life time period.


[Modified by Honda4CX-R, 3:04 AM 10/31/2001]