Front Passanger CV Axle Question

Being a mass-produced item, bearing life expressed as L10, L50, etc. is game of statistics. If both bearings were bad, it means you were driving a long time on one bad bearing. If @Milkman14 's noise just happened recently, it's worth spending some effort diagnosing, in case the problem isn't a wheel bearing.

 

I took both of my steering knuckles to a shop. They had to buy one new bearing because they forgot a seal. oops! I didn't do the work but taking the newly pressed in bearing ruins them. This is true on all of these type of press fit bearings.

 

Thanks for the help guys, I got the knuckle out no problems and had a machine shop replace the wheel bearing, upper ball joint, and seals. Also went in and replaced sway bar linkage, and tie rod end since some boots were tore. CV axle was spewing grease (not sure how I missed that before) so I replaced it too. Sadly the noise is still there and I will be unable to work on my truck for 10 weeks or so since I will be away so I will hope nothing blows up and I will probably have a shop try to help diag the sound when I'm back.
Still happy I did the work since everything (besides maybe the bearing) needed to be replaced.
I'll update the thread when I take another crack at it to help future diagnostics.

 

Started to notice the noise would go away when turned to the passenger side. Was able to rent a bay on the army base I'm on. Did the wheel bearing, upper/lower ball joints, tie rod end, sway bar link on the driver side. Noise is gone and front end has been pretty much totally rebuilt. Thanks for help guys and maybe this will help someone in the future.

 

This thread helped me the most, when trying to track down my front end noise. I had already replaced my CV axles one year ago,
Here's what I wanted to verify/add too for the next guy:

My noise was only heard from the cab, was more of a womp womp womp, typically heard 15mph +
Also I had no play in wheel from top to bottom.

I couldn't tell which wheel it was, I thought noise was from passenger, but after new bearing, no change. Did driver, fixed. could have been both from what I can tell.

One thing that I did at the end was to take wheel off, and spin the hub, since its smaller then wheel, it will spin faster at center and can get the bearing to move fast then with the rim and tire on. So you can hear the noise at the driving speed.

Super happy this guy came back and posted his results. it helped me decide to do my driver side after I did the passenger with no change in noise.

I didn't have a press and didn't want to buy/rent one.
I used the rental tool from Oreille's and AutoZone to pull the bearing out and put back in. Pulling the bearing out added difficulty but used a sledge hammer to break it loose and then it slid right out. The impact I have is not the biggest one, I think tops out at 385ft#



All in all, doing the bearings myself with no press was no problem, outside of me putting the bearings in backwards Im hoping they will last at least a year before I have to do it again