If you own a late-model 4x4, chances are you have unit bearings in your frontend. If you do a quick Google search, you'll find that these pieces of engineering marvel are cursed by many, and have ...

2006 - PACE Award Winner SKF Automotive Division What: X-Tracker Asymmetric Hub Bearing Unit Judge's Citation: SKF’s X-Tracker is the most significant innovation in the global hub bearing market since ...

Editor's note: The following article is a response by Timken Co. to questions on formed hubs. More technical resources on the company's automotive products are available at Timken's website. CANTON, ...

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 ...

In three of its 2005 vehicles – the Ford Crown Victoria, Lincoln Town Car and Mercury Grand Marquis – Ford is using a wheel hub bearing unit designed by SKF that features an integrated sensor for ...

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, ...

Packing wheel bearings is one of our favorite things to do. OK, we're lying. It's a dirty, messy, tedious job, but a very important job all the same. The basic premise of a wheel bearing is a hub that ...

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Why does my wheel hub bearing run dry? Is lubrication the only cause of hub bearing failure? Matthias. Hello Matthias, a wheel hub bearing is a set of ball or roller bearings housed in a rotary casing ...

Visionary films set in the technologically advanced future have long imagined cars that ride around on frictionless orbs similar to Star Wars’ BB-8. We aren’t there yet, as cars still use wheels and ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. In 40-plus years of working on cars, I have tackled nearly every job, from simple tune-ups and fluid changes to complex engine swaps.