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Ok, its starting to irritate me. Rather pronounced tire lean in the front end thusly: \\ //
Not quite that extremem obviously, but very noticable.
This is a new-to-me truck, so I'm unaware of any issues the front end might have had. My first suspect was ball joints, but those appear sound (no movement from tire). Only movement/looseness I've detected so far is in the passenger tire, due to a failing wheel bearing, getting a little bit of play out of that.
Driver's side tire also wears badly on the inside edge. Truck pulls hard to the right, so I already know its out of alignment, but see no point in getting it aligned until I get the wheel bearing fixed, get some fresh grease in or perhaps replace the balljoints.
Is there something else I'm not thinking of? What I'm getting at is that I can't understand how one bad wheel bearing could make BOTH tires lean so noticably. Is this a thing with the TTB front end? I'm a Jeep guy myself, don't know much about axles that hinge in the middle.
Just for reference, 85 F-150, EFI 5.0, 4spd, 4wd.
TIA.
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Not quite that extremem obviously, but very noticable.
This is a new-to-me truck, so I'm unaware of any issues the front end might have had. My first suspect was ball joints, but those appear sound (no movement from tire). Only movement/looseness I've detected so far is in the passenger tire, due to a failing wheel bearing, getting a little bit of play out of that.
Driver's side tire also wears badly on the inside edge. Truck pulls hard to the right, so I already know its out of alignment, but see no point in getting it aligned until I get the wheel bearing fixed, get some fresh grease in or perhaps replace the balljoints.
Is there something else I'm not thinking of? What I'm getting at is that I can't understand how one bad wheel bearing could make BOTH tires lean so noticably. Is this a thing with the TTB front end? I'm a Jeep guy myself, don't know much about axles that hinge in the middle.
Just for reference, 85 F-150, EFI 5.0, 4spd, 4wd.
TIA.
Boots