Front end squeal(ish) noise

[00f250]

I started getting this intermittent noise yesterday. It appears to be coming from the left front. Wheel bearing is only about 6000 miles old. If any of you remember the commercial about some sort of lube that was better than everything else where they put lubes on a bearing like thing and tried to stop it with another piece of metal. The sound is almost like that. Swapped my Warn lock-out for the factory one to test it, no difference. Tried it in 4 hi, hubs un-locked and no noise. Any ideas, the least expensive the better, as I just put $260 worth of front brakes on today, the noise was there before hand.

[stroker27]

thats a tough one, who did your brakes? you can use a floor jack and take off your tire and turn your hub by hand and see where its coming from, also you can check if your bearing is bad by jacking it up and try moving your tire vertically back and forth if youve got alot of movement its bad. a VERY small amount of movement is normal. or your seal on your drive shaft could be bad and something somehow got in there.... guess it depends on what you use it for.... hope you find it

[00f250]

Originally Posted by stroker27

thats a tough one, who did your brakes? you can use a floor jack and take off your tire and turn your hub by hand and see where its coming from, also you can check if your bearing is bad by jacking it up and try moving your tire vertically back and forth if youve got alot of movement its bad. a VERY small amount of movement is normal. or your seal on your drive shaft could be bad and something somehow got in there.... guess it depends on what you use it for.... hope you find it

Me and a buddy did the brakes, but the noise was there before that. Tried moving the tire while jacked up and its tight. It doesn't always do it, so spinnig it by hand to duplicate it might take a while to get the noise again.

[bigcountrysg]

Have you checked your rear brakes, just a thought. I had a squeal thought it was the front brakes ended up blowing out a rear brake caliper, what a scary mess that was. No brakes and brake fluid every where. I suggest looking at both brakes at the rear of your truck.

[bigcountrysg]

Hey 00f250, I know where your at. hehehehe

[00f250]

Originally Posted by bigcountrysg

Hey 00f250, I know where your at. hehehehe

[00f250]

Ok, update. Called a local 4wd drive place along with Marc to get idears of what it could be. The 4wd shop said to pull out the lockouts completely and drive it and see what happens. No difference. Called Marc, he said to try and lock the lock-outs and keep the T-case in 2wd. I did that and NO NOISE at all.

So

NOISE
HUBS T-Case
Free 2wd
Removed 2wd

NO NOISE
HUBS T-case
Locked 2wd
Free 4wd
Removed 4wd

In summary. it the front end is free spinning, I get the noise.
If it is spinning, either hubs locked OR T-Case in 4wd I get no noise.

I am at a loss for the noise.

I haven't check the springs yet like Marc Suggested. We'll see what happens next.

[bigcountrysg]

Well with the weather were about to get just drive with the hubs locked in because you gonna need 4wheel drive the next couple days with this snow we are suppose to get.

[ZUKHLR]

i just got this same intermitant noise today no clue brakes look good .. I'm thinking its a wheel bearing

[00f250]

Well, I ended up putting the original lock-outs back in and haven't had any noise.