just to let you all know, checked bearings today, by jacking rear of car up, looks like bearings are worn as suspected, moved up with some effort, but very little movement up-down, checked sideways movement that looked ok, but will still replace them just to put my mine at rest and to stop this damn squeak <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>
will keep you all informed as work moves on.
dom