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(Message started by: jimhumphries2@hotm on Apr 11^th, 2007, 12:03pm)

Title: dreaded cattlegird
Post by jimhumphries2@hotm on Apr 11^th, 2007, 12:03pm

i get a rumbling noise from the back passanger side,car has just had a 12 month mot so sorta rules out wheel bearings.ive read the part on the cattlegrid affect and it sounds very much like it .the car is a 2ltr nreg done 98 thou.can any one explain the repair job to a durrrr brain

Title: Re: dreaded cattlegird
Post by jonnycab on Apr 11^th, 2007, 12:48pm

If it's only on the rear passenger side & it isn't the wheel bearing, then possibly a drive shaft bearing is at fault ? :-/

Cattle grid effect, as far as I've read on this site, is down to a torque converter/clutch problem, so it wouldn't be on just one side.....it would feel like the whole drive.

Most MOT testers that I've met wouldn't know a broken wheel bearing if it hit them in the face....so don't rule out the wheel bearing.

But then again, a broken wheel bearing will tend to squeak or squeal rather than rumble....so I would deffinately check the driveshaft bearings & possibly the diff....? :)

Also, a unevenly worn tyre, unbalanced wheel, or even an out of shape rim can cause a rumble, especially at high speed :)

Title: Re: dreaded cattlegird
Post by jimhumphries2@hotm on Apr 16^th, 2007, 9:12am

cheers jonny.iguess ur right about mot testers they missed both front flexxy pipes split so ill check wheel bearings

Title: Re: dreaded cattlegird
Post by jimhumphries2@hotm on Apr 16^th, 2007, 9:55am

any one direct me to the driveshaft bearing page? and the diff page

Title: Re: dreaded cattlegird
Post by macroy on Apr 16^th, 2007, 11:04am

This may help.
http://www.fordscorpio.co.uk/transgen.htm

Title: Re: dreaded cattlegird
Post by petehull on Apr 16^th, 2007, 11:08am

There you go freind, try this page, hope it goes well for you ???

http://www.fordscorpio.co.uk/transgen.htm

Hth Pete