I did rotors, pads, and wheel bearings about 5 years ago and I put 5th gen Camaro wheels and 1" spacers on a couple of years ago. There's a thread on here dedicated to 5th gen wheels on lowered trucks.
Anyway, The truck doesn't get driven much. Mostly weekends and my mom takes it to Home Depot every now and then. So it's only had like 2000 miles on it since I did the bearings. On her last trip out, the inner bearing on the passenger side pretty much exploded. We had it towed to the shop that normally works on it and he said since I was going to go ahead and lower it to take it home. He doesn't do aftermarket parts like that.
I didn't take the rotor off that spindle yet, but I took the other rotor off and it took me hammering it to get it to move so I could get it to come off. Looking at the outer bearing, it was pretty mangled and was probably getting ready to come apart. I don't think the hammering caused it because there were some chunky bits in the grease on the inner bearing.
So ultimately I think my main question is does it sound like I mucked up the original wheel bearing install, or could the spacers have caused an issue? I don't think I've seen anyone say that spacers have messed up their bearings before. But I also have not run spacers on anything before.
Anyway, The truck doesn't get driven much. Mostly weekends and my mom takes it to Home Depot every now and then. So it's only had like 2000 miles on it since I did the bearings. On her last trip out, the inner bearing on the passenger side pretty much exploded. We had it towed to the shop that normally works on it and he said since I was going to go ahead and lower it to take it home. He doesn't do aftermarket parts like that.
I didn't take the rotor off that spindle yet, but I took the other rotor off and it took me hammering it to get it to move so I could get it to come off. Looking at the outer bearing, it was pretty mangled and was probably getting ready to come apart. I don't think the hammering caused it because there were some chunky bits in the grease on the inner bearing.
So ultimately I think my main question is does it sound like I mucked up the original wheel bearing install, or could the spacers have caused an issue? I don't think I've seen anyone say that spacers have messed up their bearings before. But I also have not run spacers on anything before.