2001 Toyota Tundra 4x4 Front Wheel Scraping Noise

Easiest thing to look at is your brake dust cover.

2001 toyota tundra 4x4 front wheel scraping noise. The noise appears to be coming from inside the tires. Jack it up and pushpull on the tire to see if theres any playthere wont always be play with a bad bearing depends on how bad. Toyota Tundra Bad Wheel Bearing Diagnosis.

Sounds like a wheel bearing. It is like a bearing howilin and it evens out at about 70mph but is consistant it will not change when changing lanes or sharp turns in four wheel drive it stays consistant but sounds like its coming from up front and it started making a grinding noise if you get on gas to hard from a stand still and will do it if you are rolling and still at a slow speed and hit the gas sharply also i. Differential noise I have a 2001 Toyota Tundra Limited TRD with 162000 miles.

Btw when you turn youre loading the bearing more hence louder noise turning. Jack and Wiggle With your Tundra on jack stands youll want to look and see if the wheel is wiggling at the bearing. But I changed the wheel bearings and it is still there.

Test Drive The best way to diagnose bearing noise in your Tundra is to take it for a drive. And my truck is making a grinding noise. Take it to your dealer and see if you could go with them when they trouble shoot it.

Switch it to 4WD and it goes away again. Everytime i reverse straight back it kind of sounds like i am running over a metal grate and when i turn and reverse thats when i get the pop and kind of grinding and wobbling on the steering wheelthis only happens when i reverse not in drive. Its the thin metal disk that goes between the brake rotor and the rest of the wheelhub assembly.

Sounds like wheel bearings to me. So far I have installed new front wheel bearings struts and shocks while I had the front end down. I put the truck on jack stands and put the truck into gear and determined it was definitely the transfer case.