Wheel Hub for Honda

Wheel Hub
The hub’s main responsibility is securely connecting the wheel to the axel while housing the wheel bearings. Generally, this piece comes in a disc shape with a slightly protruding center section that has several studs. Wear to your wheel hubs come from wheel bearings that fail, making your vehicle extremely difficult to handle.

Wheel Studs
These pieces are essential parts of the wheel hub assembly. The wheel studs are what connect the wheel to the wheel hub assembly. Overtop of the wheel studs are the brake rotor and wheel with lug nuts securely holding the wheel in place.

Wheel Bearing
Wheel bearings are essential to the wheel hub assembly as they are what makes the wheel spin. A wheel bearing consists of a metal ring with steel balls or some rolling element, an inner and outer ring, a bearing cage, a bearing seal, and a retainer. Altogether these parts fit into the wheel hub and connect to the wheel to allow the wheel to rotate. Although this is a very small part of the wheel hub assembly, if the wheel bearing goes bad, the rest of your wheel is in trouble. Because the wheel bearing is a small part that sees a lot of force, it is the part of the wheel that is most prone to requiring replacement.

Oil Seal
This is a rubber seal that keeps dirt, water, and other debris out of the wheel bearing. While keeping the bad stuff out, an oil seal also keeps the good stuff– lubricating grease– in the bearing assembly. This keeps the bearing from going bad prematurely.

Dust Cap
On the outer edge of the bearing assembly, there is a hole in the wheel hub assembly. This poses a problem dirt and other harmful things can get in and the needed grease can find its way out of the opening. A dust cap is an easy solution to add use time to your wheel hub assembly.