Hi,
I recently return from Ninghan station north of Perth on an overnight camp 4x4 weekend.
I got massively bogged in the stickiest mud I have ever seen. My front wheels were bogged up to 80% and was winched out by a rodeo but he was bogged to and needed my help afterwards so It wasn't so bad.
Anyways I washed my lux for 2.5 hours with a highpressuer hose and got most of the hard set mud, and then repeated the same cleaning the following day, so it's pretty clean now. 2 days ago a noise started from the front wheels (mainly the front left and when I turn left is sometimes worse)
Sometimes when I break the noise goes away, so I pulled both front wheels of and cleaned the breaks. The noise stopped for a day and is now back again. Its so bad to the point that it sounds like a train stopping but yet comes and goes. Usually starts when I go slow and turn left (the left wheel was the most bogged).
Has anyone had a similar problem?
I can only think of three things
1 CV on it's way out
2 front wheel bearings
3 breaks are stuffed
Any help would be awesome, as I want to prevent going to a mechanic.