very strange

 

I had an abs sensor replaced in the same wheel a year ago. The guy said that's usually a sign the bearing is going. He said my bearing was so far gone and my wheel would have fallen off soon.

 

Yikes!

 

Partially my own fault. My friend who own a shop gives me inspection stickers for free and I've never really gotten it inspected. I am now going to change my ways. $20 dollar inspection is worth it.

 

Whoa! you have an extended warranty?

 

No extended. I never do that. Still under powertrain and that's it.

 

Also forgot to mention, it was only $5xx.00 not in the $700's. It ended up being less than the quote.

 

Wowsers! Sucks being away from home and your tools. I actually installed new wheel bearings today as well. $61 each from AutoZone; $8 for Mobil1 grease. Borrowed a tool set to press the old ones out and back in. Took about 30 minutes to press them out and another 20 to press the new ones in. X2. I was checking some of the previous posts and decided to just do the wheel bearings (minus the rotor, hub etc). My truck only has 75K miles, and I thought it was weird they failed too. Changed out the front pads while I was at it.

 

Sounds like I could have saved a lot! Haha. Another thing I thought I'd mention. I was talking to the service guy as said I was going to do the other tree rotors and all the pads soon. He said oem, or even the cheapest pads money can buy are the best and not to use ceramic. He said ceramic are so hard that they'll wear and warp the rotors much faster. He cheap pads don't last as long but you stop faster with them due to being soft and they never wear your rotors. Just thought I'd throw that out there.

 

Yeah that's a good point. Not sure that it's ever been completely proven, but there are arguments either way on ceramic pads. I went with Wagner Thermo-Quiet semi-metallic pads. I've had a lot of success with them.

 

got my bearing from rock auto delivered for 45.00.

 

I would have as well had I not been traveling while this happened. I also needed a new hub and rotor.

 

Wowsers... Ford charged me 435 for a new rotors/hub assembly. I thought that was bad

 

Sorry I forgot you said you were traveling.

 

Maybe you baby that truck too much, XL

Man, that truck is beautiful. Course I'm partial to the old XL trim, seeing as how my first truck was a '95 XL