Annoying knock knock

[aussie4life]

Thanks for the input guys. I pulled the wheel off today to have a poke around. Pulled the calliper off because the sound had changed to sound more like metal on metal like a worn down pad. Turned out they were fine. 5mm+ of pad left on both front and back sides. Next i spun the rotor and whallah. Noise was there plain as day. Both directions. So it looks like the bearing has crapped out on me.

Now, ive priced up a new hub assy. My question now is can anyone link me to a how-to on swapping that assembly over? Gonna grab a new one tomorrow and put it in. As its my daily (and only) car, i need it back up and running before lunch time friday

 

[aussie4life]

Ok. So some good news and bad news. The good news is my pay went in early so i ducked down to get the hub assembly. Got the old one out without much hassle (gave it some encouragement thru the allen socket and bolts). Cleaned up all surfaces with a wirebrush. Put the new hub in. Bolted it down with threadlocker on each bolt.

Now the bad news. I seem to have maybe sorta kinda stripped out the thread on the top calliper bolt.

So now the ultimate question. Can this be repaired? Guessing not as its a high torque setup. If not, will the steering assembly from a vr fit into a vy? I have my old vr sitting unlicenced and this job has cost me enough as it is. If the answer is no, then ill just have to see if i can get an assembly from the wreckers or something.

 

[aussie4life]

Also can someone enlighten me as to the correct name for the assembly that the hub and calliper bolts on to?

 

[harrop.senator]

Bolts on to the lower control Arm Champ.
Heli coil should be more then fine on the caliper thread if its good enough for head bolts id give it a go on the brakes.

From memory ball joint tapers different on vr.

 

[aussie4life]

Cheers man. I meant the steering knuckle. Found the answer by calling holden. Ended up visiting my local car graveyard. For $45 i got a whole knuckle assembly plus bearing. Swapped that one out for my new bearing just because i had it there and dont want to do this again for a while. The biggest piss off was the tapered lower control arm bolt. Was alright taking the knuckle off. Couple whacks with the mallet. But getting it back in was a nightmare. But she is all back together now. Just took it for a burn lap around the block to test. Quiet as a sleeping baby. No noise. No knock. And the braking knock i had before all this has gone too.