wheel bearing wear

[mulishiaranger]

I put 32's on my truck last year, mounted on a 15x8 Rim, just the black rockcrawler rim. I'm unsure of the backspacing... the mounting holes are like in the center of the rim? ha. But anyways i had to replace my wheel bearings in the winter, probably due to the rims? The rims also don't have a center cap... could that also contribute to excessive wheel bearing wear?

 

[martin]

Large heavy tyres give the bearings a harder than normal time especially if there is a large amount of offset. the centre cap makes no difference at all.

 

[mulishiaranger]

There's not a huge amount of offset, brand new wheel bearings though... how long do you think they'll last? I don't do any hardcore 4x4in' just play around in the dirt.

 

[tpking]

how many miles was on the truck when they went out?