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Old Jun 13, 2021 | 07:30 PM
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Bad unit bearing

Trying to figure out if I have a wheel bearing for bad or something. Truck is a 2019 F250 4wd with 24000 miles that has been babied it's entire life. Noticed today I was getting a really faint whine at slow speeds that changed tone when tapping the brakes. The sound was so faint I wouldn't have noticed it if the radio wouldn't have been off and the window down.

Jacked the wheel up and spun the tire and I'm hearing a thumping type sound that sounds like a tire lug rubbing on something or poorly for gears meshing together. There is nothing rubbing anywhere though. When I locked the hub in on that side the noise got much more noticeable.

I pulled the hub off and everything looks fine and there is no play anywhere that I notice.

I guess I can add this to the list of stuff going wrong with this truck.
 
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Old Jun 13, 2021 | 07:39 PM
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A wheel bearing makes a noise like rum-rum-rum-rum at half wheel speed. It is very rhythmic. Not a whine.
 
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Old Jun 13, 2021 | 07:57 PM
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Originally Posted by C12H24
A wheel bearing makes a noise like rum-rum-rum-rum at half wheel speed. It is very rhythmic. Not a whine.
What could be causing the meshing type noise I get when I spin the tire by hand? The other side doesn't do it so I know something is off with this side, I'll try to post a video but I didn't have much luck doing it the last time
got a video taken now I just got to figure out how to post it. The sound is more of a whiting, kind of like the sound you get if you let you hand slightly rub a plastic ran blade as it spins
 
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Old Jun 13, 2021 | 08:14 PM
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Originally Posted by fordman19762003
What could be causing the meshing type noise I get when I spin the tire by hand? The other side doesn't do it so I know something is off with this side, I'll try to post a video but I didn't have much luck doing it the last time
got a video taken now I just got to figure out how to post it. The sound is more of a whiting, kind of like the sound you get if you let you hand slightly rub a plastic ran blade as it spins
Brake pad touching the rotor.
 
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Old Jun 13, 2021 | 09:30 PM
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Here's a link with the video, don't pay attention to the scraping sound from the brakes(they've done that since day one and I was told there is nothing wrong)but to the sound that is like an airplane

https://imgur.com/WvpLAXf
 
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Old Jun 13, 2021 | 09:48 PM
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Stick on wheel weights on the inside of wheel?
 
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Old Jun 13, 2021 | 09:52 PM
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Stick on wheel weights on the inside of wheel?
Yes, but they're low enough that they shouldn't be rubbing.
 
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Old Jun 13, 2021 | 10:45 PM
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Pull the hub and spin it again.
Locking hub might need to be greased.
 
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Originally Posted by Sport45
Pull the hub and spin it again.
Locking hub might need to be greased.
Did that and the noise was the same
 
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