Hi Brickboard-

We have a 97 855T5 with 113K on it. It's making a growly/grindy cyclic noise from the right front tire area, "shek shek shek shek shek". It's most noticable when making slight left turns off-throttle. It's definitely tied to wheel speed.

I'm suspecting a wheel bearing. The PO (original owner) had the left wheel bearing replaced at about 70K IIRC. But there's also the center bearing for that long right axle... I was leery of undoing the axle retaining nut in the brake rotor, unsure if there's a torque spec or what for it.

The noise was barely noticable when we bought the car 3K ago, but has steadily gotten to the point where you can ALMOST hear it going in a straight line.

I put the car up on jackstands and put it in gear, and the tires did NOT smoothly spin forward together; they sorta stopped/started, the right side somewhat violently. When it stopped, it almost looked like the brakes were being applied. Could this be traction control at work? I didn't see the dash light come on, and I didn't have the sense to turn the system off.

Many thanks for any advice.
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Kyle
Santa Rosa, CA

1980 242GT MSnS 200K
1997 855 T-5 110K
1990 744Ti 115K - for sale
1972 Riviera 130K
1972 240Z 1K (since restoration)
1972 Datsun Pickup 87K(187K?)