The unit bearing was a great engineering breakthrough. Imagine the time it once took to set up and properly adjust the front hub bearings on big Ford and Dodge 4x4 trucks on the assembly line. A unit ...

Our ’05 Dodge Power Wagon is a great truck, but there are a couple things that have bugged us for a while. First, like many other modern 4x4s, the front axle was designed with sealed unit bearings.

LOUISVILLE. Kenworth Truck Co. is making ConMet PreSet Plus wheel hubs a standard feature on all Class 8 over-the-road trucks. The announcement was made this week at the Mid-America Trucking Show.

As routine maintenance and basic automotive servicing tasks go, packing wheel bearings isn't one of the glamorous ones. It's a messy job—and one that could cause serious damage or problems if not ...

There’s no mystery to why wheels come off trucks. The National Transportation Safety Board in 1992, and Ontario’s Ministry of Transportation in the late 1990s, both concluded after exhaustive studies ...

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 causes of wheel separation are well known. They include bearing failures; loose, broken, or missing wheel fasteners; damaged wheels, and to a lesser degree, failures of certain axle and suspension ...

Greasing wheel bearings can get very messy very quickly, in a very kindergarten kind of way. The trick is to embrace the ooze, because greasing is the fun and easy part. The hard bit comes when ...

Want to make your car grip better and go faster? Use racecar parts. There's always something to learn from an industry whose sole purpose is to go fast. In the less restricted racing classes, a Wide-5 ...