Thread: Grand Prix wheel hub assembly ????

There are very few ppl on there that know what they're talking about, that list is very small though


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IDK about all of this. I just clean the mating surface on the hub, the hole where the bearing sits in the knuckle, torque the hub bolts to 96 ft lbs with a little bit of blue loctite, and torqued the axle nuts to 151 ft lbs. That was on my 97 with SKF and had no issues. I put them on the gf's 02 later on and did the same procedure. For the 99+ it says to do 118 ft lbs for the axle nut but I did 151 ft lbs cause I knew it could take it. No issues with hers either.

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Nothing special about timken anymore unfortunately, like someone said previously, all made in china/taiwan/mexico parts now. I have had really good luck with mevotech in the past on previous cars, I am a big fan of how they over engineer their replacement bearings with larger internals for better load carrying capacity. Their ball joint boots are sometimes hit or miss but for the most part, nothing I havent had issues with with other brands as well. We recently installed a set of MOOG strut bearings on my buddies saab 9-3 and we couldnt figure out for the life of us what was causing the spring to bind and make noise after the replacement. When we pulled it all apart we found out that the included mounting bolts for the mount were actually a half inch longer then the OEM bolts, and were making contact with the spring when it turned. Fortunately I keep lots of OEM bolts around the garage and we were able to replace all of them without having to use hardware store parts. But its little **** like that that I keep running into with moog parts. Looked at my brand new control arms the other day that I pressed in moog spherical front CAB's into last month, and the dust boots had already separated from the housing leaving the ball joint exposed. I intend on contacting moog about that this week actually because im very disappointed.