Oh Dear...

....poorly car.

 

Sounds nasty, are you *sure* it's the wheel bearing?

 

Could be a dustbin wedged underneath.

 

No, that's the car body.

 

+1

My guess would have been brakes.

 

Or a fucked diff.

 

Thats sounds more a very badly fucked UJ of some kind.

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Nige,

Land Rover 90
Yamaha R1
Range Rover Vogue

 

Remove the traffic warden from underneath it.

Does that model have a live axle or IRS? Sounds like it might be a uni
joint if IRS.

 

Just jack it up on axle stands so the back wheels are off the ground,
run it, and see where the noise is coming from.
Sounds expensive to me but ICBW.

 

IRS - when I had it jacked up off there was a a lot of slop in the
wheel bearing. UJ's looked ok but I didn't check properly (the outer
one is hidden away).

Noise definitely coming from the hub.

 

The brakes are in-board and the noise is definitely coming from the hub.

The bearing is very sloppy when I had it jacked up. I've heard
bearings like that (it was on the banger track though).

Thursday is the day it gets taken apart so prace bets now!

 

I need to have the hub apart to check but there is a lot of slop from
the bearing and spinning it by hand with wheel off the noise is
definitely coming from the hub.

I won't know for definite until Thursday when I have it in pieces.

 

...but I should have added the outer UJ is housed behind the hub so
could be transferring the noise.

 

Doh - of course, they are inboard disks. I was thinking the noise
sounded like drums. [1]

[1] cue old Geordie joke.

 

Surely if that was the case, the noise would be more of a wine?

 

On a car of that vintage?

 

Just sour grapes, IYAM...

 

It does sound more UJ-like to the fickle ginger ear of fate - the
bearing could well have broken up too, but that sound is distinctly
UJish.

 

I will examine it in detail on Thursday - the excitement is killing me.

Fortunately the prices shouldn't as the parts are pretty cheap (£28 for
bearing set and £25 for UJ joint).

 

If that's yer wheel bearing, it will cost you more than that mate

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Nige,

Land Rover 90
Yamaha R1
Range Rover Vogue