Ok so I installed a new wheel bearing, new rear shock mounts, , threw on my winter wheels, and lowered the front coils ~1". I go to move the car and it wont budge. the clutch engages and theres something stopping the car from moving. I lifted the car and got all 4 wheels off the ground and only the rear pass wheel spun. I can’t move the wheels my hand either nor can i push the car on the ground with the ebrake off.
Ideas?
Was the wheel bearing one of the front ones? Sounds like you have “a stick in the spokes” situation. Pull the front wheels and see if there is anything binding. Potentially a bad new bearing?
Just throwing ideas out there.
figured that too. While the car was still on the ground i climbed under and looked around and saw nothing. wheels aren’t chocked, axles don’t seem to be hitting anywhere, and i heard the ebrake engage and disengage. Tomorrow I’ll look at the bearing again and see if that’s the source. Any idea why only 1 wheel moved when I had it in the air?
Did you press them in yourself? Or did you have a shop do it?
Had a shop do it
Couldn’t be something like the parking brake be fused? Wash the car or Park it after rain recently?
I was thinking the same, you’d be surprised how strong the pads fused to the rotor can feel. When I pulled my motor and went to push the car a few days later I think I almost popped a nut out of place…haha
I brought the rpms up a decent amount, like a mini launch in reverse and nada. I can also hear the brake engage and disengage. It also has not rained significantly, rotors have no surface rust. Would that explain the front wheels? I’ll be going back at it in a bit.
The brake engage and disengage sound means nothing. It is still fused on my b8 when I release the lever and it makes the noise.
Explain this again. You had a shop do some work… Drive home… Then it won’t move the next day?
Did you try turning the rotors by hand with a rim off? Any chance the lugs are the wrong size for the winter rims?
Good point, or he tried to use stock lugs and they are too long, but then none of the wheels should turn.
It’s hard to help with this kind of issue because it’s honestly probably something stupid…or something being overlooked. If any of us were 5 minutes away we could probably swing by and point out your issue in a few minutes.
and if you try and spin the rotor with a wheel off, please make sure you have a set screw in it…or a lug. Don’t come back and tell us yes it spins, when it is just free spinning on the hub…lol
So I figured it out.
Saki I did everything myself. took off the hub and bearing and had a shop remove the old bearing and press the new bearing.
So one of the things i did was swap wheels. I picked up some new alzor wheels from ecs and had my old winter tires mounted on those. Even gave them some opticoat. I remove the wheel and as soon as the last bolt came loose the rotors was able to spin. So i look at the new bearing and the bolts were too long and hit the bearing. So I checked the new wheels vs my summers and sure enough the area that the bolt holds onto is thinner. Causing the bolts to go further than they should and hit the bearing. I now either need to run spacers or run summers. I should have some shorter lugs, going to hunt them down now and hope i don’t need to rethread the hubs on all 4 corners.
long story short: fuck ECS tuning
make sure the lug seat is correct too or your probably run into a fucking horrible ride! You probably need conical seats, and decide what length they need to be.
ALZORs should take ball seat, so I assume your summer wheels are after market? Not sure why it’s ECSs fault because you thought everything is just interchangeable.
yea i was just thinking about those other bolts. theyre my stock bolts, the ones I was running were conical, I’m not sure if I have conical bolts in this size. Anyone know what my options are in regards to ECS if I dont have shorter bolts?
edit: wheels are 18x8.5 et 35, anyone know how big of a spacer i can fit without rubbing? car is dropped running a 245 tire, maybe 255 in the future.
the ALZORs are ball seat according to ECS, you need BALL SEAT. The conical lugs will go further because the don’t seat correctly. Do you have your stock lugs? ECS says they basically bolt right up with factory hardware.
You don’t need spacers, you need the correct lugs…even if you get spacers you still need ball seat lugs that are long enough to use spacers.
7mm max all around before you start to have rubbing issues
+1
Happy to hear it! Glad it was something simple.
And glad to hear you didn’t test the brake rust/fusion theory any further 