Vcu bearings

terr · Jan 4, 2024

3 months ago had 2 vcu bearings from barrette (land rover)
2month later 1 starts rumblings as under guarantee replace new one and the one that came off was rushy at just 2 months old. Now 300 miles later its making a rumblings again . Both times its the back one that goes.
Any ideas about this

Alteredtech · Jan 4, 2024

Hi,

If the bearings keep failling, you have certainly have an issue, somewhere, can be the VCU, diff monts, uv joints, the IRD or the tires.

GrumpyGel · Jan 5, 2024

Are you sure you are mounting it (either on the shaft or bolts) straight?

Dunno if that's even possible to get out of alignment.

Andy Warren · Jan 5, 2024

Yes you can mis-align them ( the prop). The only time I had trouble with early failure (of new ones) was with lack of grease in the bearings. I ended up prising both of the 2RS seals out of the replacemens (they had a token amount of grease in) & re-packing them with a good amount of waterproof grease. I recommend anyone replacing the VCU bearings re-packing them first.

terr · Jan 6, 2024

Thank you all.
the first bearing from barrette the bearings where all rusty so much for land rover quality

terr · Jan 6, 2024

Now got some from Bell engineering

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