I had the same problem. One side, the passenger side went smooth. The driver side did the same as you are describing. I did have both races and bearings in there. They were new bearings and clean. The problem was that the spindle had some scoreing on the hub, where the race is place on. I took a stone (sharpening stone) and smoothed off the fretting or rough surface scaring. Then took some wet-drt sand paper and polished. I think I polished down to 1500 grit. Then reassembled. It worked as planned. This was on the front.
Tom