Damaged Wheel

is the tread depth of all drive tires the same? any cupping of tires?

 

Thats called a carrier bearing.

 

Op that dent on the inside of the wheel is no big deal. That's from a tire tech hiring it with his hammer trying to break the bread loose when changing tires. Extremely common at these tire shops that hire employees that don't care.

 

What truck model,Year, make. Also what suspension do you have?

 

actually, i thought a carrier bearing, was the one(s) inside the rear axle.



i had done a few back in my day. the one i posted was usually called a shaft/center support bearing


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it was that (or those) diff carrier bearing(s) that was bad on my old mack single axle, the shop just swapped out the entire assembly. (the carrier and the bearings).

 

Do the easy things 1st, Use your bottle jack you have in your side box to jack up each tire and put a block of wood or steel close under the tire then spin them and watch for the tire moving and hittting the block then you can tell the tire was mounted off center on wheel use the ring on tire to look at space to the wheel to see if its the same all the way around the tire, or tire is having a out of round when it was new,

 

there is a slight possibility, that if you jack up the entire rear of the truck, and hand spin the drives, you might be able to hear any noises in the rear ends, which would then support that it may very well be a rear carrier bearing. if you have a mechanics stethoscope, that would help you even more. you just want to eliminate the possibilities of the rear end(s) bearings.

 

if the wheels are not true, meaning perfectly straight, and not wobbly, that too of course would support a bad wheel. given that this vibration was there, with the other tires does not mean the wheels are not true and straight, they both (or one) of them can be ever so slightly bent. if run on a high speed wheel balancer, this can be seen better than spinning the wheel by hand.