A heavy duty wheel hub rarely gets noticed until it starts complaining. Maybe it is a low rumble that shows up at highway speed and fades when you change lanes. Maybe it is a steering wheel that shivers, or a brake pedal that pulses at the end of a ...

A wheel hub spends its life in one of the least forgiving places on a vehicle. Rain, brake dust, heat from the brakes and, on a winter road, salt water several times a day. That is why so many hub and bearing assemblies leave the factory with a plat...

Wheel hub spindles live in one of the hardest-working places on any vehicle. They carry the weight of the corner, absorb braking torque, and resist the side loads a tire generates every time the wheel is turned. Most drivers never think about them u...

Vehicle wheel bearings carry out a job most drivers never think about: they let the wheels turn with minimum friction while holding up the weight of the vehicle, the heat of braking and the punishment of thousands of miles of rough road. When one be...

A 2015 Ford F-250 Super Duty came into the shop with a low rumble that changed pitch with road speed and grew worse in turns. The owner ran 35-inch tires, pulled a gooseneck trailer every week, and had just crossed 68,000 miles. The driver-side fron...

Any fleet manager or owner of a heavy-duty pickup will tell you that a vibration under load or a low hum that grows with speed is not a small problem. On a loaded F-350 hauling a trailer, the last thing you want is a failed wheel bearing. The wheel ...