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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cobrajeff96" data-source="post: 1578939" data-attributes="member: 29141">First of all the SN95 wheel bearings don't have a lot of mass. Ford designed them that way so that there'd be less rolling resistance. It was the era where Ford prioritized efficiency over pretty much everything else (they literally changed an instrument cluster design in 1998 so that a single resistor could be eliminated and they'd save $0.05 per cluster).Ford designed the correct amount of anti-dive in the front geometry but that's all they cared about (American grid straight line cruising and panic stopping when the light turns yellow). And because they didn't care to make the SN95 capable in turns, the rear suspension is even worse with a sky-high roll center and the infamous Quadra-Bind suspension linkages that flex and just beg you to stab on the gas when exiting a car show to claim lives and property.But really, it'd be pretty damn hard to separate a wheel or spindle from the suspension, and especially hard to separate a control arm given how tough the bolts and the mounts are. You'd already be hearing them complain long before they actually give up. As long as everything is torque right and nothing squeals or clicks it should be fine. If a front wheel has a wobble to its spin while it's jacked up in the air, you might have a need to replace a wheel bearing. If while the front of the car is on jack stands and you lightly put upward pressure under a tire with a jack and you see the wheel moving independently of a control arm, that's a ball joint failure.</blockquote>