Shot wheel bearing?

[Oddyssey]

Hey everybody,

I drive a '74 TA22, and there's a constant squeak coming from the (fairly sure) front right wheel. Dad's led me to believe that it's a shot wheel bearing, or maybe something to do with the brakes. The squeak is always there, be it going around either right or left corners or straight.

Any ideas?

Cheers,
Oddyssey

[CrUZida]

Sounds more like brake pads.

Have you checked to see how much meat they have left on them?

[Oddyssey]

Yeah, checked them ~4000kms ago and they had more than that left.

[airfireman1]

Yep sounds like the brake wear indicators scraping on the disc.
Just pull the front wheel off and check to see how much brake pad is left.
Cheers

[Oddyssey]

/me trundles off to check the brakes...

[RT104GT]

Hey everybody,

I drive a '74 TA22, and there's a constant squeak coming from the (fairly sure) front right wheel. Dad's led me to believe that it's a shot wheel bearing, or maybe something to do with the brakes. The squeak is always there, be it going around either right or left corners or straight.

Any ideas?

Cheers,
Oddyssey

Drive down the road put it in neutral and coast and wobble wheel from one side to the other if the hum hum hum increase one way and decreases the other its posisbly bearings on that side.
jack up the car take off the grease cap and slit pin and tighten up the nut, if it goes up a way you have a bearing slackened problem if it is already tight you may need to do cups and cones which is QED. 2C.

[Oddyssey]

Drive down the road put it in neutral and coast and wobble wheel from one side to the other if the hum hum hum increase one way and decreases the other its posisbly bearings on that side.

I tried that yesterday, and it seems that the squeak will die off when the wheel is turned slightly to the left, and come back again when pressure is applied to the right. I'll pull things to bits when I get a bit of time. My main concern right now is getting the car running again:

The ignition switch seems to be farked. When turning the key to start it, the engine will run for as long as the starter switch is engaged (meaning that you can rev it with the starter engaged - not good for it but the engine does run.) As soon as you release the key to the 'on' position, it will die, like you've just turned it from 'on' to 'acc'. When turned to 'on' without the engine running, all the normal lights are there, so it's getting ignition, but only when the key is in the 'start' position.

[allencr]

As soon as you release the key to the 'on' position, it will die,

Ballast resistor on the coil.

[takai]

Aye, Ignition is connected to STA not IGN.

[Oddyssey]

Cool, I'll have a look tonight. Cheers people!

[Oddyssey]

New ballast resistor on and now runs. Thanks people .

[EldarO]

Toymods!

FTW.

glad you got the prob fixed , no replace that bearing before your wheel seizes and you crash, not a good prospect.

Eldar.O.

[Oddyssey]

Yeah I'll get onto that asap. Also I thought it would be a good idea to replace the master brake cylinder, as both the original master and slave clutch cylinders have died and been replaced, and the original brake master is still there. I don't think brakes aren't what I want to lose in an emergency....