Paging wae

Anybody have contact info for wae? I have a popped wheel bearing a few miles south of him and looking for advice on where to go for parts/tow/rental car or hotel..

Thanks!

Info from grm on the road thread below.

GPS coords are 39.005429, -84.604477.  Email, text or call:  Eight hundred fifty nine, eight hundred and two, zero, four hundred eighty nine.

Click on "contact" in this link and it should send him an email. 

https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/community/wae/

We are in contact and tools are on the way!

Bill is the man, lifesaver. Wheel bearing seized to the spindle so he's run out for a death wheel. Hoping to get er slapped back together and on the way tonight still..

Try the weld on the inside trick?

I don't have good pictures but it took 3 slices and lots of chiseling to get the big chunks of former bearing out. Spindle is pretty F'ed. Made the decision to slap it on good enough to get to a hotel, and realized the outer bearing AutoZone sold me was the wrong one - aka no luck at all on getting it back together. Real pain following the hours of angle grinding and chiseling in the cold. 

Bill got us to a hotel for the evening (pup included) and family is driving down to trailer us back in the morning.

Which bearings did they wind up selling you?  It looks like SET11 is the right one for the inner and SET12 would be the outer.  I think what we were missing there is that the outer bearing needs to drop in from the back of the rotor - I wasn't thinking clearly there.  But you might have the right bearing.  I can't believe how much material from the old bearing got fused to the spindle, though.  And it looks like that's a mostly out of stock dealer part or junkyard item.

Set 11 and Set 13 are what I have.. I believe a junkyard run for a "new" spindle will be in the cards!

Long day of travel - our 12 hour trip home came in just under 23 hours. Cannot thank wae and the community this forum fosters enough. With his help, my fiance and I weren't alone at night in the middle of unknown Kentucky. Over a period of hours, he helped me try to cobble something together until we discovered the bearing misfortune, then was kind enough to drive us to a hotel. Late on a Saturday night, in 30° weather, in an unlit Autozone parking lot, instead of being home and warm. We got up at 530 this morning to load FIL's trailer with no outer wheel bearing on the Expedition, and drive the 5.5 hours home. Uneventful trip, aside from being exhausting. Truck on trailer, and the fragments of outer wheel bearing we death-wheeled and chiseled off the spindle are pictured below. Un-berking-believable.

All of this happened just shy of rolling over the 200k mile mark - odometer is currently at 199,861 when it chooses to be on. Hoping to hit the junkyard next weekend and get back on the road soon. 

I'm glad y'all got home okay!  I'm sorry we couldn't get you back on the road last night, but I've never seen two bits of metal fuse to each other quite like that before without a using a torch.  Hopefully your Michigandian junkyards have some 2WD trucks and SUVs in them so you can get that spindle - I know the ones around here do have a few, but the 4wd models kind of overwhelm them.