can the handbrake damage a wheel bearing.

[john.med]

sister's fiesta had her handbrake tightened up at service, then the wheel bearing failed. AA man told her it could've been because of the above. True?

 

[fuel_slut]

Im gonna go a head and say no. Unless shes doing hand brake turns? lol

Are the rear brakes drums or disc's?........ doesn't matter as a hand brake wouldn't damage a bearing.

 

[john.med]

it's on drums. I thought the same,.. I can understand if the hub itself was tightened, so the bearing was overtightened... But not the handbrake. Madness surely?

 

[mr angry]

I suppose its possible for the bearing to fail due to heat build if the rear brake was dragging.

 

[Mark One]

I suppose its possible for the bearing to fail due to heat build if the rear brake was dragging.

it's a long shot really.

I can't see any link tbh

 

[john.med]

I thought the same, but surely it would get bloody hot under heavy use anyway?

 

[The Boosh!]

pals handbreak collapsed into back wheels which screwed up his bearings also... Good Times.

 

[clio_rob]

it is possible as i have seen it done, as on most fiestas they have std bearings that are easily over tightened, thats if they did the job properly and removed the drums to ajust the handbrake

 

[ditz]

yes it is possible, you have to undo the hubnut to take the drum off, and adjust the shoes up.. sometimes they stick on the axle a bit and never tighten back up quite right.
they cant be overtightened by nature of the design dosn't matter how tight you do those bearings it wont overtighten as it just tightens against the face of the axle (precision machined to load the bearing up at this point)
if it was undertightened however it could do it.

 

[franx]

heat of a brake dragging can cause damage to bearings

 

[mr angry]

yes it is possible, you have to undo the hubnut to take the drum off, and adjust the shoes up.. sometimes they stick on the axle a bit and never tighten back up quite right.
they cant be overtightened by nature of the design dosn't matter how tight you do those bearings it wont overtighten as it just tightens against the face of the axle (precision machined to load the bearing up at this point)
if it was undertightened however it could do it.

This depends on the year as the older ones had tapered rear bearings.

 

[ditz]

yes it is possible, you have to undo the hubnut to take the drum off, and adjust the shoes up.. sometimes they stick on the axle a bit and never tighten back up quite right.
they cant be overtightened by nature of the design dosn't matter how tight you do those bearings it wont overtighten as it just tightens against the face of the axle (precision machined to load the bearing up at this point)
if it was undertightened however it could do it.

This depends on the year as the older ones had tapered rear bearings.

thats true, but they still tighten up in the same way (mk3 onwards im talking)
bout 300 odd nm off the top of my head, cant overtighten the actual bearing if you tried.

mk1+2 were adjustable though

 

[john.med]

She has a 52 plate 5 door, zetec, 1.4 duratec engine, the boxy angular mk whatever,.. From before they did the 3 door version of that mark I think,..

 

[Christopher]

Possible. If it's been adjusted incorectly, so much so that it's binding... putting more stress on the bearing.