Hi all; new guy here. I recently bought an '02 outback sport. As I got use to the vehicle, I started noticing what I thought was road noise/loud tires. After some though and some more listening, I'm starting to rule out the tires; they are good road tires that don't have a typical "noisy tread pattern" to them, AND, the noise was only coming from the rear wheels. Last night I pulled the rear wheels off to look around. The drums are not binding up on the brake shoes, the booties on the CV joints are intact, the drive shaft and u-joint seem to be solid. Could I be hearing the sound of dry or bad wheel bearings? Also, the sound has a slight oscilation in pitch.
Any ideas would be most appreciated!