Video: Setting the Wheel-Bearing Pre-Load

Video: Setting the Wheel-Bearing Pre-Load

Tire Review's Maddie Winer has tips on adjusting wheel bearings, from the Tire Review Continental Tire Garage Studio at Babcox Media.

Adjusting or setting the pre-load for some wheel bearings can seem like a leap of faith. If you don’t get it right, the bearing could turn to molten metal or the wheel could come off the vehicle.

Tire Review’s Maddie Winer has tips on adjusting wheel bearings, from the Tire Review Continental Tire Garage Studio at Babcox Media.

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