tire wear, wheel bearings

[Tim Rogers]

The "wub-wub-wub" makes it "sound" like wheel bearings.
If you jack up the front and try to rock the front wheels along the vertical
axis, do you get any play?

Tim Rogers

On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 1:11 PM, David Pertuz <davidpertuz at mindspring.com>wrote:

> Hi y'all,
>
> My tire-wear-reading kung-fu is pretty rusty, as pretty well-sorted cars
> mean I've not had to do any in years.
>
> On my G20, RF tire has noticeable additional wear on the inside 1.5cm or
> so of tread - not really severe, but enough to notice. An additional
> bevel, with slight concavity. LF tire has normal wear but very slight
> additional wear and very slight cupping on the inside inch - this is
> consistent with the strong left pull that I've had for a while.
>
> LF tire is not a mystery - it's the RF I'm not sure about. The car seems
> to have an obviously bad RF (or RR?) wheel bearing - by sound, anyway.
> There is the hum-roar under load, some wub-wub-wub. I need to take care
> of this ASAP (I wish I could do this without an arbor press, but of
> course I don't have one, so I need to find a place to take it to) but
> I'm  abit unsure of the diagnosis since the apparent source of sounds
> can be tricky and nothing is bad enough that it is mechanically loose
> when you tug on the wheel.
>
> Tie rod ends are probably OK but I think I'll replace them soon anyway.
> Front end feels fine in terms of tightness but it's got 165k so it won't
> hurt. Tie rod ends car cause toe issues and related wear, but the wear
> on the RF tire does not suggest toe to me due to the pull to the other
> side.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> David
> Chicago
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