Yesterday I put my x up on 4 jackstands and let it run in top gear, I have a bad wheel bearing noise going for the last 2 weeks. I am on front wheel bearing #7 so I doubted that it could be yet another one of them, but the rears are the 2 original ones. It sounded like a rear bearing, but I could not be certain from the drivers seat.

Once the car was runing in the air, the culprit was clearly coming from the left rear.

I was worried that this might have been the rear diff, because it started soon after I changed the diff oil.

I crawled under the car and the noise is clearly from the left rear hub, not the diff. so I think that is good news.

OK.. so I need to change the bearing, any advice on this job? Jag Genius, can you get me the part?

 

JTIS says to use a special puller.. can I just beat the hub off (lol)

 

no package yet..

this is the rear bearing .. I assume the thing to do is buy the hub - bearing installed.

I have done my front bearings 3 times by buying the whole knuckle (aka Verticle Link in Jag-speak)