Steel bearings are standard in industry, but can be heavy and corrode. Lightweight thermoplastic bearings and assemblies can address these limitations. Thermoplastics offer other advantages as well.

When wheel bearings go bad, you'll know. Here are some top replacements. If you’ve spent many years owning a car or truck, especially one that’s out of warranty, you’ve probably heard the song of the ...

Your car’s wheels spin around a stationary axle, and in order for them to do so, something has to allow for “slip” between the two. That something is a wheel bearing. A vehicle’s wheel bolts to a hub, ...

Plastic cable producer Igus Inc. has developed a tribologically optimized plastic plain bearing that requires neither oil nor grease as a lubricant. Since they are lubricant-free, no contaminants ...

If you have disc brakes and you have to remove the caliper to get the disc off the spindle in order to get at the inner bearings, I think that you should inspect and pack them only under supervision ...

It won't be hard to tell if your vehicle has broken wheel bearings. The most common symptoms of worn wheel bearings are squealing or grinding noises that get louder the faster you go. The noise could ...

As routine maintenance and basic automotive servicing tasks go, packing wheel bearings isn't one of the glamorous ones. It's a messy job—and one that could cause serious damage or problems if not ...

The lowly and often taken-for-granted wheel bearing hasn’t really changed much in design or function since the dawn of the automotive age save the move to incorporate them into wheel hub and bearing ...

Endurance Warranty, Omega Auto Care, Toco Warranty and American Dream Auto Protect Your car’s powertrain warranty will likely cover wheel bearings if they fail due to a defect, though some ...

As routine maintenance and basic automotive servicing tasks go, packing wheel bearings isn't one of the glamorous ones. It's a messy job—and one that could cause serious damage or problems if not ...