the bad news is that the front wheel bearing is integrated with the hub and
so it is expensive ($150 per side vs $30 per side in the rear). the good
news is that it is easier to install than the rear wheel bearing.

but i have no sense at what point these things go bad, i replaced mine at
about 110k as one in the front was clearly bad. i did both sides on the
front because it just made sense, and then i went ahead and did the rear
since i was replacing the rear rotors and had a history of problems with the
rear brakes rubbing... turned out they were about to fail too. yet i
still have that rear rubbing noise in the rear despite new
calipers/rotors/pads... and will be installing new slider pins next (were
hard to find but i finally found them)... pretty soon the only thing
original will be the vin (so heed lanny's warning or you will end up like
me).

"XS11E" > wrote in message
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> Lanny Chambers > wrote in
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>
>> In article . com>,
>> "Trent" > wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for the input, last night I took off the front wheels
>>> and
>>> shook the wheel, and I think the front bearings are either wore
>>> out or low on bearing grease,
>>
>> Have you gotten a decent wheel balance yet? Don't start replacing
>> expensive parts at random until you've eliminated the most-likely
>> source of the problem.
>
> Agreed but the OP should inspect and grease the wheel bearings, that's
> apparently needed. It may or may not have anything to do with the
> shimmy but it still needs to be done and I'd consider it to be urgent
> if there's any evidence of dry or bad bearings.
>
>