Front wheel bearing bad, which one?

[LSTony]

I remember reading a thread here on how to determine which one it is by turning but for the life of me I cant find it now.

Whats happening is there is a noise coming from the front end that gets louder as you go faster, if turn right the noise goes away and if you turn left it get louder.

 

[pektel]

My guess is the driver's side. Mine is doing the same thing. I changed the passenger side bearing, and the noise still remains. Going to swap the old pass side bearing to teh driver's side one. They are interchangeable.

 

[ford nut]

Most of the time its the opposite side that you think it is.
I just change them both, if one is bad the other is going to be soon.

 

[pektel]

Most of the time its the opposite side that you think it is.
I just change them both, if one is bad the other is going to be soon.

lol. This is what happened to me. I was trying to nail it down where the sound was coming from. I thought it was driver's side, then thought "it's always the opposite one", so I switched the pass side bearing. Now I gotta use the pss side bearing on the driver's side to see if it goes away.

 

[Outkast]

jack up the car and she which one is loose..

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[LSTony]

I'll have to jack it up and check it, I just had it in pep boys a couple weeks ago before I parked it to do the timing chain job and during the last snow we had here the right side wheel slid into a curb and they ended up having to put a new inner/outer tie-rod on it (side to side movement) and a sway bar link on that side that got dislocated from its bottom bushing.

Most of the time its the opposite side that you think it is.
I just change them both, if one is bad the other is going to be soon.

 

[LSTony]

Turned out to be the pass side one as I suspected thank god as that mofo was a fuggin bitch to get out . Now all I gotta get done is the rear brakes and hopefully I'll be set for a while. Gotta do the front brakes on the wifes van tomorrow tho .

 

[lseguy]

made total sense that it was the pass side. When you turn left, the weight/stress goes to the passenger side, hence the noise when you turned left.