SlimPickins
Escapee
So I swapped out my wheel bearings a couple years back and only have maybe 3k miles on them. Not long after I noticed growling/grinding from the front and finally got the chance to look into it this past weekend. Here is the pic of my driver's side outer bearing. You can see the cage is flattened at the 12 o'clock position. How the heck did I pull this off? Perhaps I dropped it while greasing it up prior to install but I don't recall doing that. Could it have been too loose after torquing to preload and then backing off? Damaged in shipping? Maybe. But I'd like to think I'd have noticed that when I was filling with grease. Any thoughts?