I just replaced my passenger rear wheel bearing with a "genuine nissan part" bought from autopartswarehouse.com and when i had the spindle(5 spoke hub part) pressed into the new bearing i could sit there and wiggle the bearing. Is this right? After I tightened the axle nut up the bear snugged up a wouldn't move except doing its intended perposed of rolling. I thought ok well its all good and buttoned up everything and drove the car around with no problem. No noise everything good. well about 100 miles or so the sound started coming back I jacked up the car to make sure this bearing didn't give i wiggled the tire and it didn't shake. I thought if the axle nut was loose it would wiggle but it didn't so i'm left scratching my head. the part came as a sealed bearing so other then greasing up the axle splines i didn't add any grease to the bearing its' self.

What i'm trying to figur out is... did i get a bum wheel bearing since i could wiggle it after the other piece was pressed in?

I'm kinda getting pissed at my car since the driver's rear bearing was out when i bought it. was replaced under warrenty. after i got my new rims and about 700 miles of driving the passenger rear went out.. I just replaced it and now its make the same sound so i'm really getting aggravated with this sound....

mods that effect this area is only the rims. 19x10.5 at 15 offset.

please any help would be awsome b/c i'm really starting to get mad at the car b/c of it.

on another note its not tire noise b/c the falkens i have where silky smooth and quite when the wheel bearing was freshly replaced.

Thanks
Rob

PS sorry for writing a book... haha

 

Should have replaced the hub as well.

 

Sounds like Tim Nailed it..you may have worn a grove in the spindle causing the bearing not to sit correctly

 

the spindle didn't move though just the bearing. where the outside of the bearing meets the bearing houseing. the spindle is snugg inside the bearing. plus where to you find just the spindle? i looked for the full hub assembly but could never find it... only the bearing.