On Jul 26, 11:26 pm, Bl?Bl?
<killfiltered.tro...@br3tludw1g.sn0m4n.m1st3rf4ct.s!rcre4p.c0m> wrote:

Yeah, it's a 99 SL1 with about 113,000 miles...sorry

On Jul 27, 2:17 pm, "HyperCube33 \(Life2Death\)"
<hypercube[11x3]@hotmail.com> wrote:

Thanks for all your help and willingness to do so...

A friend and I fixed the thing; quite a job.  He's a mechanic, and had
never seen a bearing like that.

I can go into detail if you'd like...it took a lot longer than we both
expected.

To answer another question:  How did I come to the conclusion it was a
wheel bearing?  Well, it was making a thumping noise for quite some
time, around a year or so.  Of course it got progressively worse, and
I began to have premonissions that at some point, probably around 3
am, my tire would fall off and I would go crashing into the woods and
become a missing person.

It was classic wheel bearing symptoms, a thump-thump-thump type of
noise, which earlier in it's time would only do it if the weight would
shift onto the tire around a corner, or not do it if it would shift
onto the other wheel.  And apparently I was the only one to see this
as odd, as a number of local shops that I took it to said it was fine,
even after I explained what it was doing.  Probably wanted nothing to
do with changing that bearing.  I know the guy who helped me said he'd
never do another one.