I hear you. “Ball bearings aren’t that interesting,” you say. “You wrote an entire article to justify that subtitle,” you say. You caught me on the latter. As to the former, though, you’re wrong.

[Ball bearings] are at the heart of any mechanical device. Tiny metal balls covered in grease and encased in a steel ring. Inside the axle of a bicycle, for example, there are perhaps a dozen ball bearings, acting as mini steel rollers that allow the bicycle wheel to turn freely. A good road bicycle can cost thousands of dollars and include some extraordinarily sophisticated space-age materials. But without two or three dollars’ worth of quarter-inch diameter ball bearings, the bike won’t work. It literally won’t move. Same is true for the engine in your car. Or virtually any mechanical object that involves a rotating part.

So if you've inspected your front wheels, if the 2013's don't have 4 bolts holding the hub and bearing in, then you'll need the separate bearing, circlip and hub to be sure to avoid problems.  A bearing puller kit with appropriate sized billets and receiver cups will make life easier and I've seen videos where it is done without removing the entire knuckle from the car if you have the kit.

I've decided to only order Timken bearings. There have been a few comparisons to Moog (usually very good) and other "knockoff" brands that are inferior and this is a job that I want to last. I saw the bearing for $35 at Carid.com and Amazon has the hub, bearing and clip for about $72 here  

2013 Edge Sport AWD here with 77K miles...   I've been having a nasty road noise that has been getting worse over the last month.  I also thought it was tires, (It had some Pirellis that were down to the wear bars), which I needed to replace before winter anyway, so I had new Continental DWS 06 tires put on.  Noise was still there.   Last night I jacked up all 4 corners to see if I could figure out the issue.  When I put it in Drive, all 4 wheels would spin, and I could hear the sound.  So then I just used a board to carefully stop one wheel at a time.  If I stopped the right rear, or either of the fronts, the sound was still there.  BUT when I stopped the left rear, the sound was totally gone.  I ordered up a rear bearing/hub today, and will install it tomorrow.  Hopefully that takes care of my issue.  If it's the rear end or PTU, it'll go to the dealer since I have the powertrain warranty until 100K miles.  (Bought it Certified Pre-Owned). Just wondering, since I may have the same issue, did you replacing the bearing and hub solve your issue?

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The U.S. is sending billions of dollars in powerful weapons to Ukraine so it can fight off the Russian invasion. But that effort is leading to some shortages - not only in the weapons themselves, but also in the parts that they need - among them, ball bearings.

Despite the decades of technological innovation since WWII, the humble ball bearing is still vital to the effective prosecution of war.

“And a Pentagon official I spoke with said, listen, these are not the kind of ball bearings you find at a local hardware store. These are precision ball bearings built to higher standards. And ball bearings are used in all sorts of military hardware — things like guidance systems, artillery, armored vehicles. The ball bearings help facilitate motion. They reduce friction and position moving machine parts. Now, the Pentagon says it’s meeting all its current contracts, and all are with U.S. companies, so it’s not like they’re running out. But clearly, you know, it’s an issue for them. And military officials tell me now they’re talking with industry about how we can create more ball bearings and move faster.”

The problem was two-fold. China simply didn’t have a machine with the precision to cut a tiny ball-bearing accurately. While it supplied the world with 80% of its ballpoint pens, all the balls came from Switzerland. The steel, according to Xinhua, must be “easy to cut but not liable to crack.” It also doesn’t produce steel of high enough quality to make the casing that surrounds the ball. It all comes from Germany or Japan.

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@mikeyhd I'm facing the same issue on my 2011 AWD but still trying to isolate which wheel. From my research, it seems there is conflicting evidence as to which type of  front bearings are in the car. There are fully assembled hub and bearings that claim to fit the front of my 2011 but also claim to fit the rear. Those are bolt-on replacements that only fit my rear wheels. My 2011 has the front bearing seated in the knuckle casting. Removing the hub from the bearing will likely break the old bearing. I've seen many shops and DIYers simply replace the hub with a new one. It may be a wise choice to have one on hand if you damage the old one removing the broken race that sticks to the hub. The hub could also be corroded and make life difficult.

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Can I jack up the car and spin/move the rear tires and confirm that it is one or both of them? Will I fee grinding or feel play in them?

You can diagnose wheel bearings usually by just jacking up one wheel at a time and spinning it.  Just be sure to have the wheels chocked and the parking brake on while you're doing the fronts.

Usually, I write data science-y Python explainers, but I hope you enjoyed reading something a little different. Next time you find yourself poking around a machine, try counting the bearings!

Jan 22, 2021 — The most common and easiest sign of wheel bearing failure is the noise it will make. If you hear a growling, rumbling, humming, screeching, or ...

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Seems counter-intuitive. I was thinking I need to raise at least one front and one back wheel off the ground  to get the car to sit there while spinning its wheels. Even then, I'm not so sure. Has anyone done this successfully?

Bearing lubrication method is broadly classified into three categories: Oil lubrication, Grease lubrication and solid lubrication. Satisfactory bearing ...

It became headline news when Premier Li Keqiang complained about it on national TV. The “world’s factory,” which churns out smartphones, stealth fighters and WeChat, couldn’t manufacture a tiny metal ball.

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It’s sort of like taking the key card out of a house of cards and having the whole thing collapse, or pulling on the thread of a spiderweb and having the whole thing unravel. That’s what the Americans thought they were going to do.”

“If you took out [Schweinfurt], it could have the potential to take down the entire German war economy. This is what the Americans were looking for, and they thought ball bearings might be that target.

In a war characterized by horrific new “Vengeance weapons” and the development of the nuclear bomb, ball bearings were still center stage.

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Here’s the rub, surfaces in relative motion… well… rub. The result is friction. As a consequence, you lose a whole bunch of energy to heat. Also, the components start to wear. The friction of two surfaces sliding against each other is, reasonably enough, called sliding friction. Slap some spheres between two surfaces in relative motion, though, and the rolling motion reduces the friction. Spheres are also invaluable to constrain motion in the context of spheroid joints, think of a ball and socket like your shoulder.

Wheel Bearing and Hub Assembly (Front). Toyota Corolla. Genuine Toyota Part - 4355047020 (43550-47020). Ships from Scarborough Toyota of Canada, ...

The bearing on my 2011 needs to be pressed out of the knuckle after removing the retainer circlip after the hub is removed.

A Chevrolet Impala Wheel Bearing Replacement costs between $173 and $193 on average. Get a free detailed estimate for a repair in your area.

Most machines move. Most machines are made of metal. This presents some logistical challenges. Just ask your local tribologist. According to Wikipedia, tribology is the study of “science and engineering of interacting surfaces in relative motion.”

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I thought my tires on my 2009 Edge AWD were getting noisy but it is just too loud to be tires - I think? It sounds like it is coming from the rear. The rear driver's wheel bearing assembly was replaced about about 100,000 miles. I know have 216,000.

The war in Ukraine has been a war of sophisticated technology — drones and anti-drone weapons, Javelin missiles — yet ball bearings remain a strategic resource in short supply.

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So I still have a loud howling. It gets louder and quieter with speed and is not impacted at all when I swerve the car one way or the other while driving. It is pretty clear it is coming from the rear.

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Honest to goodness. It could assemble a ballpoint pen, but, believe it or not, China — with a GDP of ~$12,000,000,000,000, a population of ~1,400,000,000, and ~350 nuclear weapons — couldn’t manufacture the tips for ballpoint pens.

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2013 Edge Sport AWD here with 77K miles...   I've been having a nasty road noise that has been getting worse over the last month.  I also thought it was tires, (It had some Pirellis that were down to the wear bars), which I needed to replace before winter anyway, so I had new Continental DWS 06 tires put on.  Noise was still there.   Last night I jacked up all 4 corners to see if I could figure out the issue.  When I put it in Drive, all 4 wheels would spin, and I could hear the sound.  So then I just used a board to carefully stop one wheel at a time.  If I stopped the right rear, or either of the fronts, the sound was still there.  BUT when I stopped the left rear, the sound was totally gone.  I ordered up a rear bearing/hub today, and will install it tomorrow.  Hopefully that takes care of my issue.  If it's the rear end or PTU, it'll go to the dealer since I have the powertrain warranty until 100K miles.  (Bought it Certified Pre-Owned).

Based on a video I watched, I jacked up each rear tire independently and moved them back and forth and spun each tire. I noticed no grinding or play. I thought each tire would spin freely and they really don't. I have an AWD model and you can tell it moves the drive shaft that is connected to it that leads up to the PTU. So it moves it just a bit (smidge) until it firms up in the PTU and then the wheel turns. I assume it is supposed to do that. It behaved like this on each rear tire.

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Nov 6, 2009 — Was going to tear into the front wheel bearings on my 2006 Fusion and it looks like they are the press-in type. How much of a pain in the ...

I also went to the place I bought my Bridgestone Dueler ECOPIA's. They only have 35,000 on them and they are 60,000 mile tires. Two are down to 4/32" and two are down to 5/32". They will replace them when they all hit 4/32" and give me roughly $70 on each one as they have worn to fast. I share this as it has been my experience that as tires wear they become noisier and noisier. When these tires were first put on, I couldn't believe how quiet my car was.

2019624 — Front-wheel bearings suffer increased stress due to the steering, so they may need to be replaced at some point on a vintage car.

SKF multi-row cylindrical roller bearings are particularly suitable for high rolling speeds and the heaviest rolling forces.

War involves a lot of machines. Trucks, planes, guns, tanks, and sundry other implements of destruction require bearings. In WWII, rapid mechanization increased the dependence on efficient, precise ball bearing production.

You can diagnose wheel bearings usually by just jacking up one wheel at a time and spinning it.  Just be sure to have the wheels chocked and the parking brake on while you're doing the fronts.

Note that when I am driving and sway left and right the noise does not change. I thought it might by changing the load on the bearings. My thinking it is more tires when it behaves like that.

Unsurprisingly, people have been rolling stuff around for a long time. Basic bearings have been in use since antiquity. Some historians have theorized that illustrations on the tomb of Djehutihotep (pronounced “Djehutihotep”) indicate that ancient Egyptians rolled around construction material for pyramids and statues.