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Subject:Easy way to tell which W.B...
From:Don Hanson
Date:Sat, 14 Jan 2017 09:15:07 -0800

..Is going bad?   I've done the right rear in the distant past... But quite
a few miles ago... Lately I'm hearing some protest, rotation of
wheels-related, (clutch in..No difference, turns no dectable difference,
either)
I have no idea which wheel it may be... I've lifted and done the push/pull,
feel for play test, but they're similar feeling at the rear, the fronts
feel correct and they rotate smoothly... I am pretty sure the fronts are
fine...
  I am semi-remote and depending on only my onboard tools, but I can
replace the rears OK, and I have one complete setup... I just don't want to
start the wrong wheel, out bere on BLM ....Any "trick" to help me figure
out the "most bad" bearing, so I can do it right here, rather than
somewhere north, in the snow?  thanks DH