Rubbing noise from rear wheel , tricky to diagnose , any thoughts?

[malcolm]

Hi Again , took truck to mechanics on Thursday when the noise promptly disappeared only to come back again on Friday - So we pulled axle out on Saturday to investigate - bearing had lost some grease but not all - So elected to replace seal at this point as we don't have access to a press at home but .........

Whoops - got the wrong seal in my spares kit - so bearing re packed and repeat again with new seal in the week .

Apologies if this is getting tedious - more exciting posts later......and thanks for help .

[malcolm]

Hi again , just to round off this saga - pulled axle shaft out again and replaced with correct seal ( $13.80 online ) repacked with grease etc . Seems to be OK but a bit hard to tell in 90 km winds we had yesterday !

Decided not to go to drama of removing bearing at this point though good to know spacer can be a problem . I'll keep an eye/ ear on it and see how I go . If I find something definite in the future on this I'll post a note but in the meantime thanks for all the helpful comments and advice.

Cheers

[Morton]

Malcolm, tedious is good, this helps others out that are not so determined as you are, so many issues have the same noises/problems etc that it is often hard to know exactly what the issue is, trial & error is par for the course with some problems, but the experience gained today will help someone on here in 6 months when they fall to the same drama, you may point them straight to the REAL issue, this saves time & in some cases buckets of money, absorb the knowledge & part with your wisdom as required

[threedogs]

X2 with above, with threads like yours the forum can only get better, well done and fingers crossed you solved the problem

[White Elephant]

Eggzachary. All the info helps everybody out mate. Pleased it was a reasonably simple fix.