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so crap! where to start :serious: so almost died last Friday along with the wife. as many of you may know i just replaced my hub bearings i think back in February? and here's what happens when you buy crap from Ebay! so i was taking my wife to work Friday morning driving through some windy back roads in Ohio cruising around 45-50mph. came to a straight away when all of a sudden my steering wheel started to shimy, vibrate...than shake when all of a sudden everything goes in slow motion as the driver's front end drops to the road and i can clearly see it since it happened in slow motion but my wheel fly's up and literally smacks my front door up the window and over my BT mirrors! the truck started to pivot and i'm sliding towards oncoming traffic! i see my wheel bouncing along opposite traffic where it clearly misses the car by a few feet! i'm yanking on the steering wheel to get back to my side of the road when all of a sudden i lose my brakes and the brake pedal hits the floor! fortunately i'm able to get the truck to turn slightly to the right but i have no brakes so i'm trying not to tip the truck over into the ditch. the truck finally starts to slow down and the wife is totally freaking the ef out! i get out thinking it was my spacers cause the issue but to my surprise after looking at it i realized it was the wheel bearings that literally broke from the spline. had the truck towed to a local body shop but the tow guy had a pain trying to get the front end up onto the bed as the broken caliper bracket was dug into the road. the State Trooper couldn't believe how a bearing could break like that? anyhow, i'm safe, the wife is safe and the truck is repairable but waiting for the insurance adjuster to come look at the truck! i can only think of probably the spacers put a lot of stress on the hub or just cheap hub bearings. either way i told the body shop guy to put in OEM bearing from Nissan and he agreed. i'll keep you guys posted!
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you can clearly see where it snapped at the spline and the brake caliper bracket broken in half! i have no clue where the caliper is as it's somewhere in some cornfields.
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here's the rotor still attached to the wheel and you can see the other half of the wheel bearing still attached! the wheel is bent and i'm not sure how it did that and it's missing the inner valve stem so no air in the tires. i'm surprised i was able to find the tire as i spend a good hour looking for it in the soy bean field!
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so pretty much the front driver's fender is smashed upward....the door is pretty smashed too! State Trooper was talking to me and the wife and said if this happened on the freeway doing 70mph i don't think you guys would have made it. i'm sure the truck would have flipped to it's side and toppled over and over and over! :eek_surprise: anyhow just some advice and you guys probably already know but don't buy cheap Ebay parts!
you can clearly see where it snapped at the spline and the brake caliper bracket broken in half! i have no clue where the caliper is as it's somewhere in some cornfields.
here's the rotor still attached to the wheel and you can see the other half of the wheel bearing still attached! the wheel is bent and i'm not sure how it did that and it's missing the inner valve stem so no air in the tires. i'm surprised i was able to find the tire as i spend a good hour looking for it in the soy bean field!
so pretty much the front driver's fender is smashed upward....the door is pretty smashed too! State Trooper was talking to me and the wife and said if this happened on the freeway doing 70mph i don't think you guys would have made it. i'm sure the truck would have flipped to it's side and toppled over and over and over! :eek_surprise: anyhow just some advice and you guys probably already know but don't buy cheap Ebay parts!
