So I'm pretty sure I've diagnosed the hub/bearing is bad on the front driver side, when it's jacked up I can wiggle the tire... My question is this, I pulled a rotor/spindle/hub off of a tl at a junkyard because it was in damn good shape thinking even though the rotors for 6MT and automatic base TL's are different, correct me if I'm wrong on that I hope I am... Lol anyway has anyone ever done this and would this hub work if I can just put my brake rotor on it? My car is 6MT with the brembos and the car i pulled it off of did not have brembos

 

I'm confused, why not buy new?

As for the difference in parts, both the Knuckle and the Rotors are different.

 

If you wiggle the tire, are you sure that play comes from the bearing? If none of the ball joints are bad, you should see axle moving as you move the whole wheel side to side. Bearing play will move whole wheel in any direction (and not only side to side as with bad tie rod).

Why not press in new bearing? If you can't do it yourself, have some shop do it. They shouldn't charge much and you will have brand new bearing vs unknown knuckle from the junkyard that was sitting for who knows how long.

If you are that far, maybe replace lower ball joint as well.

For your question, brembo calipers won't bolt on to the base knuckles.

 

Because I was already at the junk yard because I needed one of those little displays where you see the a/c functions and radio stuff whatever the hell that thing is called and I started to look at the wheel hub and it looked in good shape and figured if I spent 30$ or so on it and it worked then that'd be great and if not it's only 30$ but you make a good point I probably just need to go ahead and buy new, it was just when I was looking I couldn't find hub/bearing assembly already together it was like I needed to buy the bearing and have it pressed in blah blah... Guess it was wishful thinking I would be able to just swap the part out

 

I recently as of a month ago give or take replaced lower control arms, inner and outer tie rods, lower ball joints and stabilizer links, and I've also changed the CV axles. I'm almost positive the play is coming from the hub/bearing.. I definitely don't believe that I can't be wrong though.. the only thing I didn't do is upper control arms.. what you think? I figured it was the wheel bearing

 

You're totally right though, I need to just buy it and have it pressed in... I definitely feel kinda dumb right now lmao... I guess I just didn't quite think the whole thing through and I just tried to save a little cash.. didn't pay off though... And yeah the wheel would go in any direction

 

Definitely gonna take your advice and pay the 50$ for the shop to press it in... Thank you for your input I do appreciate it!