Servicing Wheel Bearing Seals: Part Two - Tire Review Magazine

Servicing Wheel Bearing Seals: Part Two

Tire Review’s Mary DellaValle walks through installation tips for wheel bearing seals, from the Tire Review Continental Tire Garage Studio at Babcox Media.

In our last video, you learned about how wheel bearing seals are able to withstand countless heat cycles due to how they are fabricated and designed. You also learned about how how new materials and lip designs are used on wheel bearing seals to reduce friction and help them hold up through various heat cycles.

In this video, Tire Review’s Mary DellaValle walks through installation tips as well as how to detect seal failure, from the Tire Review Continental Tire Garage Studio at Babcox Media.

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