Nominal Rolling resistance front tires AWD

What is normal rolling resistance for the front tires. I jack the truck up and spin them by hand. I get about 1.5 turns driver side 1 turn passenger side before they stop spinning after I stop applying movement by hand.

I'm curious whats normal. I've not much experience with these. I recently rebuild the axle tube and wounder if I effected anything else.

I have a 2001 Z71, 4x4 with the AWD setup.

kinda depends....
you might spin the tire by hand faster or slower than the next person so it would stop sooner or later. with the vehicle lifted up turn the wheels all the way both directions. at each lock try rotating the tire by hand at that point. if you have a bad joint you should have a spot it will feel like it binding. after that do you have any odd sounds while driving or rotating it by hand. next do you feel any play in any direction.

I wouldn't worry about it, if the diff operates as normal and no weird noises I would leave it alone, The passenger side has the longer axle, the driver side has the stubbie so you would think it would be less friction. I cant count the ammount of rotations on it, but it looks like about one also, this is a vid from mine passenger side bad hub bearing.

Erickk120 said:

I wouldn't worry about it, if the diff operates as normal and no weird noises I would leave it alone, The passenger side has the longer axle, the driver side has the stubbie so you would think it would be less friction. I cant count the ammount of rotations on it, but it looks like about one also, this is a vid from mine passenger side bad hub bearing.

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You are WAY too awesome. Wow I cannot thank you enough for making that video. It looks pretty well like the resistance on mine.

I've just been a little paranoid about it as I did a bunch of work. Replaced output shaft bearings on front diff. Replaced rear end (completely). Did ball joints. Replaced a couple tires.

Along the way I somehow ended up with the truck pulling to the passenger side. I've been super discouraged about it. I'm rebuilding it and have a bunch more parts to replace before I get it aligned. However was SUPER careful about bushing preloads, torque specs, alignment (used laser measures, ride height, etc.). Hoping that the truck would keep a decent alignment along the way.

I've tore everything back apart, remeasured, recheck parts again and again and cannot find the slack or any defective components.

Then I rotated passenger side front tire to driver side, the pull followed the tire. Now it pulls the driver side. I think I have an issue in my tires. Never experienced that before.

Front tires are heavily warn 265/75/r16 BF Goodrich K02's. Tried airing to 35 PSI and then to 30 PSI with same issue.

If it followed the tire then it's the tire and not your own work/alignment, Although I would say get it to an alignment shop when you get everything sorted out. You don't wanna be like me and run 3k miles with brand new tires just to end up with a slight feather out outside edges because I didn't want to align it before finishing suspension work I had planned during those days, 440 dollar mistake that I will never repeat. I assume your tires have excessive wear in either side and that is causing the pull. Don't get discouraged though. We all get that moment when we question our selves and 2nd guess things just for it to get the best of us, don't ask me how I know.

Erickk120 said:

If it followed the tire then it's the tire and not your own work/alignment, Although I would say get it to an alignment shop when you get everything sorted out. You don't wanna be like me and run 3k miles with brand new tires just to end up with a slight feather out outside edges because I didn't want to align it before finishing suspension work I had planned during those days, 440 dollar mistake that I will never repeat. I assume your tires have excessive wear in either side and that is causing the pull. Don't get discouraged though. We all get that moment when we question our selves and 2nd guess things just for it to get the best of us, don't ask me how I know.

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I think I can see issue. It is much more obvious in person than in photos. Sidewall is weaker on the bad tire. It buldges at bottom where as other tires do not. Can see the bad tire buldge poking out past top of tire when looking down. Other tire dows not do that at all. I just ordered two new tires and will get aligned when installed many thanks

I think what happened is one of these tires was on front. Other on back. Former owner must have never rotated so wore poorly... and i got axles mixed up. So when that happened the wear pattern is so differwnt that they wont work together.

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