Yabo

Well, maybe its more like those peeper frogs. Just think of driving through the woods at night. Thats the sound I'm getting from my right rear wheel when taking right turns. It's not too loud.. I really only notice when i'm going by a wall or something which reflects the sound back. I was thinking maybe it's because my rear tires are just about gone,, and they are at the wear nubs in between the treads, maybe there is one towards the outside ? But that's just wishful thinking. I already did all front wheel bearings, both front ball joints, and replaced front sway bars.. Stupid 20 year old car. Anyway, is this a usual sign of rear wheel bearings?

theedge

Not to hijack, but is it also a sign of rear wheel bearings going out when there is a faint whine during hard cornering? Doesnt happen during normal driving, but long sweepers at high speed there is a whine from the left rear, when its a right hand sweeper... Hadnt noticed it before the Vancouver fest...

Luis de Prat

Wheel bearings.

Yabo

For both of us? Could it be my CV joint on that side? That was the side where I had broken bolts this winter when I took it apart.. Wondering if the CV's may make noises like that. I don't get any whines.. just that sound i described. Like someone shaking a rain stick. :P

threesticks1

When the CV joint began to fail on the drivers side it would make a, at first, a small knocking noise when making tight turns. It eventually began to make a very loud knocking noise when accelerating or decelerating. I could feel the vibration in the back of my seat. It sounded like someone was puonding on the trans axle with a ball pein hammer.

Porsche-O-Phile

Thought this was going to be a thread about 9201s and other tensioning tools. . .

Luis de Prat

CVs begin failing with a pinging sound that evolves into a cracking sound, eventually seizing.

Rear wheel bearings make a variety of annoying noises, including but not limited to humming, thumping, whining, screeching, grinding...

In my experience weird noises from the rear wheels, at least on the early cars, are almost always the wheel bearings. YMMV.

Danno

I had a mysterious squeak from the right-rear that was driving me bats! Wasn't the wheel bearings or CV-joints. Turned out I had some cracks on the inside rim-edge and the flexing when that section was at the bottom caused the squeaks..

Yabo

Come on, who here has over 2000 posts and doesn't know what a cricket is!

Danno

I think it's a "Kriket"

Porsche-O-Phile

I know what it is - I own two of 'em!!!

I guess my pathetic attempt at humor failed. . .

Yabo

Nah, i got the joke. But, I did forget it was a k. Hehe.