Loud bang --> black grease, wtf?
04-27-2008, 03:26 PM
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RE: Loud bang --> black grease, wtf?
You need to take the wheel off and see, do NOT drive the car until you figure it out!!![/align][/align]It could be lower ball joint, bad lower control arm bushings, a bad strut/strut mount, or shat I'm beginning to suspect you blew a wheel bearing--probably the inner bearing...[/align]
04-27-2008, 05:13 PM
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RE: Loud bang --> black grease, wtf?
So I took it off, and there appeared to be excessive grease oozing out of the rubber bushing at the tie rod connection. I cleaned off all the oozing grease, and it hasn't reappeared, but I've only been out driving for about 15 mins, spent the whole day waxing.
I'll post pics later, why would this come outta nowhere? No work has been done to the car recently.
I'll post pics later, why would this come outta nowhere? No work has been done to the car recently.
04-27-2008, 05:34 PM
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RE: Loud bang --> black grease, wtf?
Is the wheel still loose? There isn't much grease inside the tie-rod end, not enough to make too much of a mess.[/align][/align]There should be VERY little to no play in the wheel itself, certainly nothing that should be described as "excessive movement"--and there is a lot of black grease in the wheel hub...[/align]
04-27-2008, 05:39 PM
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RE: Loud bang --> black grease, wtf?
maybe a wheel bearing but i doubt it since its not making any noise or anything driving. maybe you have a ball joint going out. that would make a loud pop if you hit a bump or something.
04-27-2008, 06:02 PM
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RE: Loud bang --> black grease, wtf?
ORIGINAL: cliffyk
Is the wheel still loose? There isn't much grease inside the tie-rod end, not enough to make too much of a mess.[/align][/align]There should be VERY little to no play in the wheel itself, certainly nothing that should be described as "excessive movement"--and there is a lot of black grease in the wheel hub...[/align]
Is the wheel still loose? There isn't much grease inside the tie-rod end, not enough to make too much of a mess.[/align][/align]There should be VERY little to no play in the wheel itself, certainly nothing that should be described as "excessive movement"--and there is a lot of black grease in the wheel hub...[/align]
aCiD - Did you try to grab the wheel and try to move it around while you had it up on the jack? As cliffyk said there should be little to no movement at all. And how fast exactly were you going? 120? 130? and how long did you stay at that speed?
04-27-2008, 08:28 PM
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RE: Loud bang --> black grease, wtf?
ORIGINAL: black35th
That was another guy that was saying he had excessive play in the driver side wheel.
aCiD - Did you try to grab the wheel and try to move it around while you had it up on the jack? As cliffyk said there should be little to no movement at all. And how fast exactly were you going? 120? 130? and how long did you stay at that speed?
ORIGINAL: cliffyk
Is the wheel still loose? There isn't much grease inside the tie-rod end, not enough to make too much of a mess.[/align][/align]There should be VERY little to no play in the wheel itself, certainly nothing that should be described as "excessive movement"--and there is a lot of black grease in the wheel hub...[/align]
Is the wheel still loose? There isn't much grease inside the tie-rod end, not enough to make too much of a mess.[/align][/align]There should be VERY little to no play in the wheel itself, certainly nothing that should be described as "excessive movement"--and there is a lot of black grease in the wheel hub...[/align]
aCiD - Did you try to grab the wheel and try to move it around while you had it up on the jack? As cliffyk said there should be little to no movement at all. And how fast exactly were you going? 120? 130? and how long did you stay at that speed?
It was 180km/h for about 2 minutes, I had already been driving for 2 hours at 130-150.
Pics in a second.
04-27-2008, 09:11 PM
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RE: Loud bang --> black grease, wtf?
Here it is, I wiped off what was oozing, you can see where some dripped onto the brake rotor shroud, I've been driving maybe 3 or 4 times today, nothing has come back.
04-27-2008, 10:18 PM
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RE: Loud bang --> black grease, wtf?
ORIGINAL: smoke96
i have excessive movement in my driver side rear wheel, what could that be?
i have excessive movement in my driver side rear wheel, what could that be?