Help! Possibly wheel bearing going bad? Not sure.
04-21-2018, 01:54 PM
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Help! Possibly wheel bearing going bad? Not sure.
Yesterday I replaced my 35x12.50r20 trail graps with K02 275/65/20. The 35s were just too big and I was tired of the rubbing.
On the way home I notice a humming sound from the front end. It increases with speed (up until about 65mph) and decreased when slowing down. If I'm turning to the right it makes no noise at all, but straight or left turns and it makes the noise. I find this strange that I didn't hear the noise before the new tires went on, but I suppose the roar of the Trail Grapps that were on before drowned out the noise of the bearing.
Ive never dealt with a bad wheel bearing or anything like that and this is my first 4x4 F150. Any help would be appreciated
On the way home I notice a humming sound from the front end. It increases with speed (up until about 65mph) and decreased when slowing down. If I'm turning to the right it makes no noise at all, but straight or left turns and it makes the noise. I find this strange that I didn't hear the noise before the new tires went on, but I suppose the roar of the Trail Grapps that were on before drowned out the noise of the bearing.
Ive never dealt with a bad wheel bearing or anything like that and this is my first 4x4 F150. Any help would be appreciated
04-22-2018, 09:17 AM
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Sounds like a wheel bearing going out to me. I had to replace one of mine (actually the whole wheel hub assembly for a little over $400 installed) at around 61k miles, the other side is still going at 95k miles now. I imagine your larger tires are putting greater loads on the bearing, so yours may be failing even sooner.
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