Turbine Doc
Just Another Diesel Guy
Just before Thanksgiving I had my right front stub axle snap and wheel fell off wanted to give rest of you a heads up, as apparently according to shop I took my truck to it is a somewhat common occurance.
Happened on the truck 161K miles, I came to a stop the week before and my ABS lite came on, I had just replaced tie rod ends and lower ball joint the previous evening so my thought was I damaged the ABS connector or it came loose, checked with scan tool showed pass side front ABS sensor fault.
Looked briefly didn't see anything obvious, drove for a week with ABS lite on, Wed before Thanksgiving backed out of my apt, driveway here in Ga., and felt like I had a locked rotor, drove another 20 yds and truck came to all stop, I pointed truck to side of road and limped it to shoulder, shut off truck and found pass side tire/wheel tucked into wheel well. What was supposed to be front of tire was pointing 120 degrees backwards, in HARD right turn direction.
Called tow truck, and sent to shop; I was away from home and really not in position to repair myself so opted to have shop repair it. Tow driver says he had seen at least 6 previous that had done it, guy at Enterprise car rental said it had happened to his at 78K, tech at shop said it happened to his at 40K.
As it turns out the axle/wheel bearings for this truck are a cartridge assembly, no maintenance like a std spindle/taper roller bearing, CV axle stub shaft shaft passes thru cartridge, thru wheel hub, and axle stub shaft lock nut holds it all together, when my bearing failed, it stressed the stub shaft and threaded end/nut sheared off and wheel came off the axle, CV shaft was okay, but entire threaded end was snapped off with nut still on broken piece.
1 new CV axle, 2 new bearing cartridges (figured if pass side went-mite as well do drivers side to bet sure), new brake caliper pins that also sheared off, a tow, 6hrs labor total bill was $970 not too terrible, considering tow was $75 & labor was $270.
According to shop no rhyme or reason, just happens, but word of caution, if ABS just faults out of the blue, check for this, ABS sensor is integral with the bearing cartridge, when it "makes metal" from bearings failing, it "fuzzes up" the ABS sensor so it doesn't read wheel speed and codes.
Alas no pics, I didn't have a camera with me, & I wasn't one doing the work.
Praise The Lord HE was watching over me, had this happened at highway speed, I may not have been here 2 weeks later to tell the story
Happened on the truck 161K miles, I came to a stop the week before and my ABS lite came on, I had just replaced tie rod ends and lower ball joint the previous evening so my thought was I damaged the ABS connector or it came loose, checked with scan tool showed pass side front ABS sensor fault.
Looked briefly didn't see anything obvious, drove for a week with ABS lite on, Wed before Thanksgiving backed out of my apt, driveway here in Ga., and felt like I had a locked rotor, drove another 20 yds and truck came to all stop, I pointed truck to side of road and limped it to shoulder, shut off truck and found pass side tire/wheel tucked into wheel well. What was supposed to be front of tire was pointing 120 degrees backwards, in HARD right turn direction.
Called tow truck, and sent to shop; I was away from home and really not in position to repair myself so opted to have shop repair it. Tow driver says he had seen at least 6 previous that had done it, guy at Enterprise car rental said it had happened to his at 78K, tech at shop said it happened to his at 40K.
As it turns out the axle/wheel bearings for this truck are a cartridge assembly, no maintenance like a std spindle/taper roller bearing, CV axle stub shaft shaft passes thru cartridge, thru wheel hub, and axle stub shaft lock nut holds it all together, when my bearing failed, it stressed the stub shaft and threaded end/nut sheared off and wheel came off the axle, CV shaft was okay, but entire threaded end was snapped off with nut still on broken piece.
1 new CV axle, 2 new bearing cartridges (figured if pass side went-mite as well do drivers side to bet sure), new brake caliper pins that also sheared off, a tow, 6hrs labor total bill was $970 not too terrible, considering tow was $75 & labor was $270.
According to shop no rhyme or reason, just happens, but word of caution, if ABS just faults out of the blue, check for this, ABS sensor is integral with the bearing cartridge, when it "makes metal" from bearings failing, it "fuzzes up" the ABS sensor so it doesn't read wheel speed and codes.
Alas no pics, I didn't have a camera with me, & I wasn't one doing the work.
Praise The Lord HE was watching over me, had this happened at highway speed, I may not have been here 2 weeks later to tell the story
