hey guys i have a grinding noisein pass front wheel when i accel brake and turn hard left. everything LOOKS ok but i cant take the wheel off as my car is sitting in a college parking lot. any ideas?

 

sound like it could be a bad wheel bearing

 

my votes wheel bearing

 

yup ... when my WBwas bad you would hear the noise go away when you truned to the side of that wheel. it was more like a humming sound tho

 

braking hard and turning left would load that wheel so yah... agreed.
p.s. thats a beautiful paint job. looks really nice. how wide are those stripes?

 

its been a year since i painted it but the base is viper black with general motors metallic red stripes that i believe i made 11 inches or so? they are either 11 or 11.5,i know for sure that i measured3.5 inches between the stripes.and then i mixed some old metal flake that my dad use to use when he painted cars in the late 70's. has a mixture of red, gold, silver, and dark blue metal flake. looks real nice when the car is all cleaned up. ill measure the stripes tonight and tell you for sure.

on the topic of the wheel problem, my neon is an early 95 highline with the 4 lug setup and i have a guy who will swap my 4 lug setup for a 5 lug all disk setup for nothing so i guess i might as well just do that instead of new wheel bearings?