Front wheel bearings
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Front wheel bearings
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Here's an interesting subject on our new Mustangs(05-09)
http://www.s197forum.com/forum/showt...986#post132986
I'm sure most of you old-timers can relate to repacking the front wheel bearings.
Here's an interesting subject on our new Mustangs(05-09)
http://www.s197forum.com/forum/showt...986#post132986
I'm sure most of you old-timers can relate to repacking the front wheel bearings.
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The same type is used on the Ford Contour and has the tendency to fail early in those vehicles when driven hard. I'm not suprised that a Mustang could have the same failure when driven on a road course.
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Meh... I'm sure it happens, but is insignficant in the greater scheme of things (or else there would have been a recall or TSB on the matter). For what its worth, I have a BMW front hub that uses the same setup as a paperweight on my desk.
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They are sealed hubs. Now you can have the bearings pressed out, but is cheaper just to buy a new hub. I dont know the price of the 05-09 mustangs, but the older ones ran around 45 bucks.
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Ford has been using this design on just about all their cars and trucks for a while now. I see no issue with it.
Like anything when it comes to pushing it in a race environment the factory parts simply do not hold up which is why most racers end up building there own stuff.
Like anything when it comes to pushing it in a race environment the factory parts simply do not hold up which is why most racers end up building there own stuff.