Well, it gets worse when i turn left, and goes away when i turn right, so that sure sounds like a bad right bearing wouldnt you say?
Ugh. I would agree. It is such a piss poor design. It gets put under a lot of pressure twice to complete the job.
All three (and the fourth one will be too) have been Timken bearings, so I'm not using crap. However, all three have said "SKF Spain" on them.
EDIT: For the record - I have tons of experience with SKF at work, and never broke one. That's all we use.
Escapes are horrible for chopping tires. I'm two weeks overdue to rotate my wife's tires and I'm already jumpy about the tires.
These have worn pretty dang even, but they do get choppy on the inside. I have to rotate them every 5,000 like clockwork though. They have about 40,000 on them, and I am going to need to get new tires before winter.