Squeaking drivers side rear wheel

[Jagman42]

I have a squeaking rear wheel which sounds as though it could be a bearing but the noise dissappears if you just touch the brake pedal. I have recently had the rear handbrake calipers and disc replaced BUT this was happening before I got all this done so it cannot be just the new pads wearing in?

Seems odd that it goes away once you lightly touch the brake pedal, so supposedly cannot be a bearing???

Does anyone have any ideas as to what this might be? It is not a loud noise but you hear it more driving along high banked roads etc.

Thanks in advance

[Keith in Norfolk]

Hi. I had exactly the same problem , I fitted new brake pads but this made no difference. I greased everything that moved , tightened bolts and sprayed WD40 everywhere , this seemed to solve the problem however after I have driven the car for about an hour the squeak returns.
I have come to the conclusion that it must be the wheel bearing :(

[malcolm]

probably is wheel bearing. Lightly touching the brakes braces the wheel a little against the bearing and stops the noise

[David Oslo]

Could it be a loose spoke? Run a piece of wood lightly around the wheel and check audibly that the spokes all have the same 'ring' to them.

[Keith in Norfolk]

As a follow up to this thread I gave my car a blast this week .
.After about ten mins the squeak is back louder than ever .
I have ordered a wheel bearing kit from Barratts and will let you know if this solves the problem.

[andrewh]

interesting. Its a really hard one to identify, I am in the middle of a full IRS rebuild at the moment, and in reality it could be any number of items. It could be a UJ, brake related. It could also be a spinning bearing cup in the hub, a loose wheel bearing, a loose disc, loose wheel bearing. I take it you have tighten up the Wheel bearing? Do keep us posted.

[hobbyguy]

Most likely the problem you are experiencing is in one of the areas already noted. However, I will just mention another, rather obscure, possibility.

When I bought my '70 roadster I returned it to the dealer at about 500 miles for the usual list of small nit picking little complaints. While it was there, they, with out my knowledge or approval, replaced all the fluids and presented me with a large bill.

After about a week or so I began to notice a noise in the rear wheels. It sounded like loose spokes. I checked them and tightened the hubs but could find nothing. Eventually I noticed, while driving it in tight circles and hanging out the drivers door, that the tires were digging into the blacktop of the parking lot I was in.

I went back to my shop and drained the fluid out of the differential. I then installed what I knew was limited slip fluid and included an additive designed for that purpose. After a couple of laps around the block I returned to the parking lot for testing and found that the problem was solved.

I believe to this day that the service people did not replace the diff. lube with the proper kind.

This is certainly an unlikely explanation for the noise you are hearing but it would be an inexpensive test to perform.

Art.

[Keith in Norfolk]

Well after much head scratching I finely gave in and took the car to my
local garage , it turns out they did not replace the bearings however they
did notice that the grease nipple was missing from the bottom of the hub.
They removed the opposite nipple and tried to screw that one in but found
the threads where shot but did manage to get plenty of grease into the hub.
After leaving the garage the squeak did return after a couple of miles however since a couple of drives later it seems to have gone ( touch wood )
I looked back through my cars history and found the bearings were replaced
back in 2009 at 49000 miles the car has 64000 miles on the clock now so I think its highly unlikely the bearings would fail after just 15000 miles.
my conclusion is I had a dry bearing which cost me ? 80.00 to have greased. Ho hum lesson learned.