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@#$%& Murphy's Law. 
On my recent Moab trip, I developed a soft brake pedal but only for one pump, at which time the pedal was solid. I mentioned the soft pedal to @PaulF , first guess, air in system and he had noticed that my i4wd didn't seem to be working properly, something I can't see from the driver's seat. But when I told him that one pump would return it to normal he immediately said - "Bad wheel bearing." Huh? "Yep, the bad bearing is allowing the rotor to wiggle which pushes the pads back into the caliper, the one soft pump pushes them back out and things are normal for another few revolutions.
When I got home, jacked it up and, sure enough, the LR bearing was bad. So today was replace the rear bearings but Murphy never sleeps.
Having forgotten how it came apart when I replaced the LR inner CV joint, I was confused when the rotor wouldn't pull off after removing the axle nut. A quick trip to YouTube University and, sure enough, it should slide right off. Well, it didn't. 😢 Out with the pry bar, and no matter how hard I leaned on it, no movement. So I found a way to use the bar like a slide hammer, still no love but at least I knew that damn rotor should slide off. So I persisted, after 'forever' I looked behind the hub and saw a ~.030" gap where I had wiped the grease off (I had pulled the hub off of the axle, so I could see behind the bearing).
Now that I had movement, I just kept banging away on the pry bar. I got it about halfway out of the bearing, noticing that the machined hub surface was badly galled and then ... it popped right off ... sometin' ain't rite here ...
That's supposed to be a smooth, shiny surface. I ride in the desert (first choice) and high country when the desert gets too damn hot; not 'much' water but some and I don't mind riding through it. Apparently 'some' is too much.
I don't think it's supposed to look like this. 🤔 You can see where I was slide hammering the pry bar.
All this to ask @HondaTech (or anyone who knows) how the hub comes off of this bolt. If it's tapered like a ball joint, I'm going to need something to make that come apart? So instead of heading back to Utah, I'll be waiting for hubs and rotors (it's apart and the rotors have seen better days after 10,900 miles). 😭
On my recent Moab trip, I developed a soft brake pedal but only for one pump, at which time the pedal was solid. I mentioned the soft pedal to @PaulF , first guess, air in system and he had noticed that my i4wd didn't seem to be working properly, something I can't see from the driver's seat. But when I told him that one pump would return it to normal he immediately said - "Bad wheel bearing." Huh? "Yep, the bad bearing is allowing the rotor to wiggle which pushes the pads back into the caliper, the one soft pump pushes them back out and things are normal for another few revolutions.
When I got home, jacked it up and, sure enough, the LR bearing was bad. So today was replace the rear bearings but Murphy never sleeps.
Having forgotten how it came apart when I replaced the LR inner CV joint, I was confused when the rotor wouldn't pull off after removing the axle nut. A quick trip to YouTube University and, sure enough, it should slide right off. Well, it didn't. 😢 Out with the pry bar, and no matter how hard I leaned on it, no movement. So I found a way to use the bar like a slide hammer, still no love but at least I knew that damn rotor should slide off. So I persisted, after 'forever' I looked behind the hub and saw a ~.030" gap where I had wiped the grease off (I had pulled the hub off of the axle, so I could see behind the bearing).
Now that I had movement, I just kept banging away on the pry bar. I got it about halfway out of the bearing, noticing that the machined hub surface was badly galled and then ... it popped right off ... sometin' ain't rite here ...
That's supposed to be a smooth, shiny surface.
I ride in the desert (first choice) and high country when the desert gets too damn hot; not 'much' water but some and I don't mind riding through it. Apparently 'some' is too much.I don't think it's supposed to look like this. 🤔 You can see where I was slide hammering the pry bar.
All this to ask @HondaTech (or anyone who knows) how the hub comes off of this bolt. If it's tapered like a ball joint, I'm going to need something to make that come apart? So instead of heading back to Utah, I'll be waiting for hubs and rotors (it's apart and the rotors have seen better days after 10,900 miles). 😭
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