So question is in the title. I can’t remember if you grab the top and bottom of tire while car is lifted should there be no play or just slight wiggle?
I recently wondered the same thing. I feel that there should be a little play indicating the wheel bearings are "loaded/adjusted" correctly. Unfortunately, without the wheel in place, it's quite difficult for me to know if the wheel bearings are tight enough. Alot of adjust, snug the wheel down and check.
Wondering what the what others will say without doing a search.
Others can correct me, but there should only be slight detectable play, if any detectable play at all.
If when you grab the top of the wheel and push/pull it back and forth you hear/feel a clicking sound, the bearing is too loose. It's a fine balance between too loose and too tight, but it should be obvious when it's too loose.
To set the amount of play, tighten the wheel nut until with a little effort you can just barely move the washer beneath it with the tip of a screwdriver.
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Moving the washer was capt’n krustys old recommendation
I really n a slight play
But it’s hard to describe without hands on you inspection
You should be able to slide the washer but bearings shouldn’t have play. Play in a bearing makes it wear out very quickly.
Also, if tight enough per the washer-moving method but there is still play, there have been issues with shock not fitting perfectly tight in the strut top nut.
with the two previous posts. I chased my tail for a year before finding this out.
Not perfect but based on info (from where I forget), I wrapped a piece of 10-gauge copper wire around before tightening the strut nut.
Tapered roller bearings will realize best life with just a wee tad bit of preload...but if you go just a blonde one past that, bearing life will dive (like 1000 miles or less). When we're dealing with sealed double row bearings, like one might find in a modern front wheel car, the "clearance" or "preload" is set by precision grinding of the inboard and outboard inner race mating surfaces, and in that controlled production environment, accuracy is achievable. When in the field assembling non-sealed tapered rollers, like on a 914 front, Timken (leading bearing manufacturer) specifies 0.002" or so of lateral detectable play measured near the OD of the rotor. A bearing assembly that's slightly loose has nearly the same life and load capacity as one that's set up absolutely perfectly with a slight bit of preload, but exponentially more life than an assembly that's set up too tight. Best to error on the side of caution.
Too much play won't hurt bearing life much, but it will result in caliper piston knockback, so ideally we want to keep play at a minimum, but still every so slightly detectable.
You can pull the strut up with a wire wrapped around a bolt...see this thread:
http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?showtopic=288552
Paul
The method I've always used (especially as a quick pre-autoX check) is just a slight wiggle. If you feel more than the slightest clicking through the wheel when you push and pull on the top, that's a sign you need to adjust the bearings. Definitely if you hear or feel a clunk-clunk!
AFAIK, going to zero play is too tight and runs a significant risk of killing the bearings prematurely.
--DD
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