Alright, I'll start with the whole story, but if you want to skip that and get to what the problem is, you can avoid the first paragraph.
So this past season or so, i rebuilt my brakes front to back. I went from '99-04 GT front brakes and SVO rears to '94-98 GT all around. My old brakes were always causing me problems and would often stick and get really hot. As part of that surgery, i put new wheel bearings and new (used) axles in the rear (which were needed because of the different style brakes). in the front i replaced everything except the rotors since both styles use the same size rotors. I had a feeling they might be glazed and warped because of the heat. I also brush painted on this rust encapsulator on the spindles so it would look a little nicer in there and they would last longer.
I went to drive the car for the first time since completing all that, and there was this horrendous noise and the rotors were catching every so often, indicating they were warped. So, i replaced the front rotors with new and tried again. The noise developed into a growl like a bad wheel bearing. So this is my question. Do you think my front wheel bearings (they are the sealed SN95 type) got too hot when the brakes were sticking and are now bad? Or could it be that the rust encapsulator worked its way down into the bearings and ruined them? The last possibility I can think of is something wrong with the rear axle. I know there is fluid in it, but say if there wasn't enough and the rear wheel bearings ran dry for a very short time would they start to make a loud growl so quickly? I really didn't drive very far. 1/2 mile at the most.
The noise is only when moving. Like a bad wheel bearing.
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