Confirmed its the wheel bearing. It must be toast because there's a ton of play, the wheel rocks back and forth pretty bad. The weird thing is that it's not noisy while driving, but i can feel the wheel wandering, not sure if maybe the lowered and sport suspension (along with all new rear arms) had masked the bearing failure. It's been like this for at least 10-15k unfortunately. The carrier may also be toast. Cant take the chance of tearing it apart and needing a new carrier. It's my only mode of transportation.

It's the same cost to buy a used one from the picknpull as it is on eBay so I will probably grab the eBay carrier/hub and have a new bearing pressed in, it's also a good opportunity to replace the lower control arm bushing in the spindle. Then it's just a simple days work of easy r&r and all the hard work is done!

Until then driving very slowly.