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MG MGF Technical - Creaking rear wheel

Just bought an R reg MGF. HGF done 2000 miles ago.
Rear offside wheel creaking.
Rear disk is nearly new, rear pads same, caliper removed & copperslip appied to rubbing parts.
Disk unglazed, pads slighty chamfered. One disk retaining screw was tigtenend. STILL CREAKING.
Front and real wheel swapped STILL CREAKING.
Appears to be a once per rev of road wheel noise lasting for about 80 gegrees of revolution.
Does not creak in reverse and cornering.
What could it be ? ( please not Driveshaft CV joint ?)Its driving us crackers !
AP Jones

could it be dry splines between drive shft and hub ?
AP Jones

Going on from your other thread, the noise on mine was as you describe and was caused by a badly fitted bearing which resulted in having to have a drive flange fitted also as this was running out of true very slightly and produced the intermittent noise as the wheel turned.

Good luck and keep us posted.
Steve P

I would second Steve's thought with the flange - I had the NSR go last year. Does the jacked off the ground wheel have any play? And were violent off central methods employed to get the old disc off(yes).
C.R.B. Simeon

There is no play in the bearing, no noise when wheel is rotated when on jacks. no noise in reverse.
Don't know about the disk removal, it was done long before buying the car .(its my sons car)
And he lives in Stockport Steve, can he meet up with you ?
AP Jones

Yep, no problem just let me have his contact phone number so we can arrange something. It's a bit short notice but we also have a local meet on Monday the 5th at the Cheshire Line Tavern (2 mins from Parrs wood, Didsbury)where he is welcome and maybe get some more opinions on the prob. Either way I'll do what I can to help.

My e mail is mgf1@nospamHotmail.co.uk

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Steve
Steve P

I had the same sound on my wifes mgf. It turned out to be the rear wheel bearing not being tight enough. The minimal play was allowing the bearing to move in the hub. This also caused strange handling as the wheel changed orientation. I couldn't find any torque settings for this, other than 'very tight'. I took it to a tyre fitting depot and they tightened it with an air impact wrench (the one they use to tighten wheel nuts). That cured the problem.
R Bennett

After a red herring about brake pads, caliper etc A new wheel bearing has been fitted (£38), the splines between hub and driveshaft copperslipped, A dose of fresh cv grease inserted into CV joint (sudden ancient memories of minis creaking on full lock but ok on straight.) All nuts and bolts done up tightly AND from our first test drive no creaking, The wheel bearing seemed fine when pressed out, so it's one of lifes mysteries. Fixed but what it was ??????????????
thanks for your inputs guys
Matthew
AP Jones

This thread was discussed between 04/03/2007 and 11/03/2007

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