11 Miles from Snowville Utah (Idaho?) I heard a squeal, then another, then the truck jerked off the road to the right, I had slowed down since it was acting weird so I didn't flip. Hub bearing assembly failed and took out rotor and caliper with it. Limped it with the wheel darn near hanging off to Snowville truck stop. Waited 7 hours, Towed 120 miles to Salt Lake, the shop was going to charge me 1500 for the parts (CARQUEST) or 2g's from Ford,(told me they were much better and it might be unsafe with carquest, well, then why do you use them? f^&^ing people), until I called NAPA (I have an account) and found out the hub, rotor and caliper were going to be 651.00. Went with CARQUEST parts, since the shop doesn't "do" NAPA, parts-617, labor and all=900. Fortunately I had a 125 mile tow on my insurance policy since Snowville has no mechanic, hotel, nothing. I'm afraid to finish my trip, was supposed to go thru OR, then to SF and down the coast and back to Dallas, It doesn't pull to the left, so I hope the left side is good.

here's my dillemma, I am travelling by myself (I'm a big boy) and I want to get to the coast and back, anybody on my way that wouldn't mind PM'ing me your contact info or a good mechanics along my route in case I have more bad luck? I'll gladly reciprocate for anyone going thru TX, long live the FTE brotherhood. I'm going to Bend OR, then to San Fran, then to Santa Barara then back across to Dallas via Amarillo.

 

If your going to Bend I'm on the way here in southwest Idaho, near Boise. We have a local Diesel club that has members along your way if ya run into trouble. I'll PM you my number if ya need it.

 

PM Sent. But I won't be back till late Monday.

 

The Jeff's are steppin up, hehehe. Yuba city Honkers if I remember correctly.

 

I believe Clay from Riffraff Is south of Bend in the Medford area.

 

Yep, waterfowl hunting is HUGE here, so I guess they named there mascot after there favorite passtime!

 

all i know,is that you better make it home so you can get those rims and tires to me...just kidding.that sucks that you hub shat the bed,but im glad your back on the road.I hope you have the best of luck on the rest of your trip..

 

hearing stories like this make it all the easier to drop the money on the dynatrac free spin kit. better to do it when you want to than when youre least expecting it making it cost out the a$$...........

we should get clay to do a group buy on the free spin kits..........

 

Where didja go? Still in Utah?

 

Was that a front or rear hub failure?

Pop

 

That's a great idea, I just need to get back to work first!

 

He has a follow up thread here somewhere.

He ended up having to ship his rig home, and he had to fly home.

Stewart

EDIT: Here's the thread: https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/8...to-dallas.html

 

Front passenger side, its still in Salt Lake, shipping it back Friday, as soon as they can get to it. I will have to redo that crappy shops work as the front axle is now leaking, it never was before.