Loud Humming coming from passenger side!, E-153 tranny- Carrier bearing? Options

[eggman40]

When im driving, i hear a loud humming sound coming from the engine bay. I could feel the vibration inside the car as the humming gets louder. It gets louder the faster i drive, so... My guess at first was the wheel bearing, but i lifted the car and wiggled the whee back and forth at 12 and 6 o clock, and there was no play. Sooo my next guess is the Carrier Bearing on the passenger side inner-axel? if a bearing is worn, would it make that humming noise? If it is, is it hard to replace? A little help would be nice, cause the sound is driving me nuts. Thanks guys!

[Racer_J]

Sounds like a wheel bearing to me. Every car I've ever owned has had wheel bearing trouble (except my Celica for some reason) and it sounds to me exactly the same, there was no play in my wheels either..

If you drive your car around a few corners at a half decent speed, you can tell which side's got the bad bearing.

Example:- If you go round a right-hander, the car will lean to the left. If the noise is noticably louder, then one of the wheel bearings on the left is shot (as it makes more noise when the load increases). If you drive round a left-hander, the car will lean to the right. If the noise is worse when you do this, then one of the wheel bearings on the right is shot.

Say you've got a bad bearing on the right hand side and you go round a right-hand bend in the road, the car will lean to the left and as the load on the right-hand side of the car decreases, the rumbling/humming noise will reduce until you strighten up again.

I've used this method a few times to determine which side of the car has got the bad wheel bearing and I've not been wrong yet!






This post has been edited by Racer_J: May 22, 2007 - 3:58 AM