[99alerogirl]

ok.. get ready to read the history that is the past week with my ho...

so, after discovering that it was my hubs causing the terrible growling noise, i decided to get them fixed. now, read this carefully...

NO lights were on the WHOLE time my hubs were bad. didn't know they were bad until they were growling. again, NO LIGHTS.

so, i took a day to replace both front hubs. took it on a test drive, and YAY no more growling! just a quiet ride, sweet. oh but what's that dinging? oh, my ANTI-LOCK and TRAC OFF lights are on. WONDERFUL. just fixed the hubs, and NOW they come on. and the best part is, the LOW TRAC light came on every time i turned my wheel. AWESOME.

so yesterday, my main goal was to dismantle the front, find out which new hub was causing this craziness, and exchange it for a new one. you know, maybe an hour or 2 of work. took the driver's side off... nothing out of the ordinary... took the passenger side wheel off and

BAM, sludge... blackish nasty sludge EVERYWHERE. axle grease... lovely. it's all over my brake line, my CV boot, my strut, wheel, EVERYTHING. so yay, time for a new CV axle, but i STILL hadn't figured out the lights.

the hub problem: i sat in my car while someone wiggled the sensor wire on the passenger side hub. everytime it was wiggled, the low trac light came on. come to find out the wire got pinched at some point when installing it. probably didn't help that i was on the phone while trying to install that passenger side one..

ok, so returned the hub, got a new one, bought a CV axle. spent 8 hours.... i repeat 8 HOURS trying to get the old axle out. sheeba would not let go, she was being a total biatch. so we had to put it all back together with the bad axle still, in order to drive about 3 miles to my friend's house where he had air tools and a big garage.

so we get it all together, get in, start it, and BAM.... ANTI-LOCK and TRAC OFF... with the NEW HUB. and it wasn't like the first time where the lights came on only every once in awhile when the wire was pinched. they were on when i started the car. and driving to my friends house the whole way you could hear the "whooshing" coming from the passenger side. UGH!

got to the friends house, ended up eventually manhandling the axle out of place (at around midnight... 10 hours after starting this whole fiasco), and getting it all back together. still have the lights, still have the whooshing.

this is putting me in a terrible mood. i'm guessing i may have gotten a hub with a defective bearing? do i have to exchange it AGAIN? that's the only plausible thing i can see. and i really don't wanna do that. but the whooshing is loud, and the lights are annoying.

sorry for the long read, i had to vent, i'm very VERY frustrated with sheeba right now. help.