It isn't like this thing is brand new and off the factory floor. It has been wheeled pretty hard for 6-7 years and I have put something like 70-80k on it since the SAS. I was probably a little behind on my front end maintenance or the bearing was getting old. Probably the latter as I do the front end R&R crap on a pretty regular basis...

Most of the recent stuff I have broken have been hubs, which this sounded like and why I simply took it out of 4WD and drove the rest of the trail. Wasn't until I got down onto regular roads that the wheel decided to lean, letting me know that it wasn't just a hub....