Thread: 2020 4wd ute test

Originally Posted by mudgripz

If you go into offroading as a motorsport for the decades you will certainly be doing regular wheel bearing changes.

Why - because you will be doing mud terrain tracks with deep bogholes. The first truck in maybe alright as the water, is clear but after that the holes are very churned up with alot of suspended solids which will get into everything in the truck as your mudgrips spin for traction. Wheel bearings are a club joke ... we experiment with different greases etc but they are still common repairs - as can be alternators/starter motors in this type of mud challenge terrain.

Yes certainly I was reasonably regularly doing starters, alternators, center bearings, calipers and slave cylinders,pads and shoes, disks and drums,cvs,diffs,springs,bushes,ball joints and even the occasional wheel bearing (only ever rears) on my LN106 but that was because its use was as you describe....lots and lots of deep water and mud.

so pretty much constantly replacing wearing parts, id expect you would be pretty much constantly replacing wearing parts with a new vehicle too with the same useage.