Hi
New to the boards here.
Hopefully a simple question.

Have 2 Accords, 1 EXV6 coupe auto, and LX 4 sedan auto, both have failed carrier bearings in the diff. Loud grinding only when foot is on gas as you're driving. Have listened from underneath and noise comes from diff area, V6 car has major play in left axle going into trans. Mileage on V6- 126k (started with noise at 100k and 2 years old) Mileage on 4 cyl- 58k

At work I have seen quite a few 98's and only 98's with failed carrier bearings, have had to replace with Honda reman units. As no one in area is capable of taking one of these units apart and getting them to work right afterwards.

Both these cars mentioned are close friends so I'd like to help them out if I can.

Has there been any kind of good will on Honda's part, or do they even know about this?

Thanks for any help.

 

Good God, a lot of miles on these cars. Carrier bearing failures generally seem to be more common with manual transmission cars, so I'm sort of surprised to see it occur with the Accord automatic (especially with such "low" mileage).

Ripping apart differentials is not for the faint of heart, and it would require an extremely experienced technician to accomplish something like this.

It sounds like these cars have been abused, in my opinion (as in continously driven hard).

I dont' know what more to say about that. I don't have anywhere near the expertise to know how to rebuild a differential, I just know how they operate.

You may have better luck posting this in our Engine Tech forum. Good luck.

 

Some more info
both cars have never been abused.

One is a housewife's daily driver. The other car has seen nothing but continuous highway miles since new, this guy accelerates like a "granny", very slow and steady.

High miles for a Honda? 126k is baby miles, and 58k is pathetically low. I am used to seeing 200k to 300k before problems like this pop up on these cars.

 

Yes, low miles given that Hondas will run for ever. I was referring to the fact that these cars are probably no older than 1998, and 126K on a 1998 seems like a lot to me.

Then again, I only have 28K on my 1999, so what do I know.