Wheel hubs play a critical role in the wheel system of any vehicle as they keep the wheels connected to the car and ensure their smooth rotation. High-quality wheel hubs can dramatically enhance your ...

Your car’s wheels spin around a stationary axle, and in order for them to do so, something has to allow for “slip” between the two. That something is a wheel bearing. A vehicle’s wheel bolts to a hub, ...

It's honestly pretty crazy how a car works. It's simply a collection of controlled explosions and metal-on-metal violence, all kept in check by clever engineering. And a wheel bearing, like many other ...

As routine maintenance and basic automotive servicing tasks go, packing wheel bearings isn't one of the glamorous ones. It's a messy job—and one that could cause serious damage or problems if not ...

In order to keep prices down and profits up, some manufacturers take the easy way out and use the same hub for steel and aluminum hub-piloted wheel fitments. The bean counters of the world are already ...

LOUISVILLE. Kenworth Truck Co. is making ConMet PreSet Plus wheel hubs a standard feature on all Class 8 over-the-road trucks. The announcement was made this week at the Mid-America Trucking Show.

The lowly and often taken-for-granted wheel bearing hasn’t really changed much in design or function since the dawn of the automotive age save the move to incorporate them into wheel hub and bearing ...

Locking hubs are a really important part of four-wheel drive systems: They're there to help drivers switch between two-wheel drive and 4WD.While many modern 4x4s now use automatic systems, the ...

Go to the buffet table one too many times and you're likely to be the slowest one on the team. The same holds true for your race car; carry too much weight in the wrong place, and chances are you'll ...

Bearing failures are less common than fastener-related separations, 26% compared to 65%, say several investigative reports on wheel separations. The causes of wheel separation are well known. They ...