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Originally Posted by preacher35
I respectfully disagree with part of what you said. I've seen/heard bearings begin going bad with the only audible noise occurring when turning one direction or the other depending on which side the bad bearing is located, and yet, be very silent when traveling straight. Go figure.
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I think it all depends on how the hub bearing is failing and there are probably more ways to detect the problem. In my case and a lot of other cases, the humming goes away in a turn. During a turn the force is distributed more toward the side that's turning and therefore the humming goes away if the bad bearing is on the side away from the turn. It's quite possible to hear the humming noise only in a turn. As I said in my post, a better way to detect the bad hub bearing is to check for free play with the tires off the ground.