In the last few weeks I've noticed a noise coming from the drivers side of my van which I pressumed was a wheel bearing.

So I stripped it down today but found the bearing to be fine, but when I spun the wheel on the o/s I could feel a light grind, but not on the other side?

The shaft seems fine so I can only think its either my gearbox or the bearing that the drive shaft goes through on the back of the block if you know what I mean!

It's a 2008 Renault traffic with just 50k on the clock, I know these ain't renowned for gearboxes but not at that sort of mileage.

It's pissing me off as its hard to pin point where exactly its coming from.

Thanks J.

 

I say the box even with that sort of milage they are shite!

 

Get someone to turn the wheel as fast as poss, and get under there and listen through a bar/long extension/pressed onto both on the hub itself and the support bearing. You'll hear/feel vibration where it's coming from then.
Sometimes can be tricky turning it fast enough.

If it's a fairly bad bearing you can feel the vibration transmit through the strut by holding the coil spring as you spin the wheel.

 

i would say gearbox mate i have the same van its done 104k miles and on its third gearbox but it has been previously used to pull heavy loads

 

gearbox failures on these are usually caused by water from the scuttle panel getting in the top breather on the box, i usually make a plastic cover for the breather and have not known one fail again after doing so

 

I had this on one before and it was caused by a gearbox mount strange as it sounds.