Worrisome noise.
#1
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Worrisome noise.
I was riding around San Mateo yesterday, after which the area of my front right wheel started making a noise, which sounds like something between grinding and clanking. I have bad spindle bushings on both front wheels, but this is a different noise.
It gets much louder if I turn on 4wd (without hubs locked) but after a while will disappear. If I stay in 2wd it won't go away.
I'm stumped as to what this is.
It gets much louder if I turn on 4wd (without hubs locked) but after a while will disappear. If I stay in 2wd it won't go away.
I'm stumped as to what this is.
#3
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I plan to fix them.
I hope my wheel bearings are ok. I just inspected the one potentially in question a month ago and packed it and out was fine. I will fix the spindle bushings soon.
I wasn't doing anything rough, didn't even use 4wd. Quite surprised that anything like this came of it.
I hope my wheel bearings are ok. I just inspected the one potentially in question a month ago and packed it and out was fine. I will fix the spindle bushings soon.
I wasn't doing anything rough, didn't even use 4wd. Quite surprised that anything like this came of it.
#4
maybe a rock stuck between the backing plate and grinding on the rotor
i got my 4Runner for $400 after a family member had no frigging clue how to do brakes.
said family member was driving happily along when the right front wheel locked up causing this
I started the tear down and found this
bolts jammed between the caliper and rotor
a similar noise to what you described was heard before the tire locked up
i got my 4Runner for $400 after a family member had no frigging clue how to do brakes.
said family member was driving happily along when the right front wheel locked up causing this
I started the tear down and found this
bolts jammed between the caliper and rotor
a similar noise to what you described was heard before the tire locked up
#5
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Yepp.
That thar is a bolt right off of the disc shield. There's a trillion of them on there so I don't think I'll worry about it until I do spindle bushings.
Fortunately in my case it caused zero damage. Seems I caught it earlier.
Those little bolts are so easy to strip. I remember now that I partly stripped one of them, but it tightened still so I rolled with it. Lesson to be learned, if you strip one of those it will fall out.