my experience with a bad wheel bearing

Hopefully someone can use this to determine if theirs needs replacing

I've got a lot of different answers when searching how to tell if my wheel bearing was bad.

I have an 08 Tacoma on 35" mud tires with 128k miles



My truck would make a grinding noise when rolling and also the breaks would become spongy because of the rotor moving in and out. Eventually I jacked the front end up and the tire itself would move in and out quite a bit.

Also while driving every now and then the truck would kinda pull to the left. Also when I hit the breaks pretty fast the truck would jerk to the left also.


I would definitely recommend doing it yourself and just taking the hub someone to get the bearing pressed in.

It litterly took me an hour to remove the hub.