Hey guys, I'm new around the forum, well been looking for a couple months but this is my first post. So here's the problem. Got a 2004 Ram quad cab Hemi. It's got about 80k on it. Couple days ago it started making a noise up in the front, not grinding but it sounded like wheel noise, but it was different than normal. Took it up to my father's, as I don't have a jack here, jacked it up and checked for play in both front tires to check the bearings. I didn't notice anything nor did my father. Spun the wheels don't here anything out the ordinary. It sounds like almost like an tire is out of balance when I get to higher speeds but no real vibration. So I'm stumped, my father is convinced it's not the bearing so I confident in his take on things but looking for reasons why it would make or have tire like noise that it didn't before. Thanks for the help
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Welcome to the site. You are on the right track for checking ball joints, tie rods, wheel bearings ect. But if you cannot find it then I would take it to a front end shop and let them check it out for free and tell you what they find with a quote for repair and then replace the parts yourself and take it back in for the alignment

 

I will do, thanks for the info it is appreciated. seems to be better, today, gonna keep an eye on it, take a look underneath it this weekend, give a good once over...