Nissan Altima: altima scrapping noise at wheel

97 altima with automatic transmission.

I made a mistake on trying pull the rotor out using gear
puller out while ball joint was not dislodged from knucle.
At the end I realized that caliper's two bolts to
the knucle made half of the rotor out of wheel
studs while on the caliper side rotor was
stuck to the hub. I immediately remove caliper
bolts and hang it to the strut coil.

Then I removed the rotor and gave up pushing axle thru
hub. I disengae the ball joint and axle came out of hub
very easily. What a mistake. Any way I installed
the new drive shaft.

I had the trouble installing the wheel nuts
because they might have damaged while rotor
was under tension. But I finally tightened all
wheel nuts.

During road test, I heard the scarping noise
in drive or reverse or making any turns.

I put the car on jack stands on each front side.
Engine running in dirve without gas pedal
pressed at about 1000rpm (I was out looking
at passenger side wheel), scraping noise came out
wheel straight or tunned at any direction.

I need your suggestion on what might be causing
scraping noise. The noise loud Any tips
on locating exact source of trouble.

Jack up the car, in neutral gear, turn wheel manual
and see where the scrapping noise is coming from.
I removed the wheel bent the thin metal shield to
fix the noise.


woodbruno wrote: