front wheel movement, Thought it was the bearings, but they are new... Options

[rjames]

After getting the newly rebuilt front suspension buttoned up, I thought I was done, but I can't seem to remove a bit of play in both of the front wheels. Feels exactly like loose wheel bearings, except that it's not. I installed new wheel bearings in the rotors even though the old ones looked fine since I was in there anyway. Spindles looked fine, too.
I verified no movement in the strut, and I can't feel any movement anywhere else on the strut assembly (ball joint, tie rods, control arm etc.). Over tightening the bearings only helped a tiny bit, (I didn't drive on the overtightened bearing, just did it to see if it removed the play).

I've done my front bearings before and didn't run into this issue. I guess I'm left with removing the rotors, but don't even know what to look for.

[rjames]

Maybe others should check their bearings…
I’m still not sure I know how to install them correctly. Here’s no less than four different sets of instructions I’ve found for installing front bearings posted elsewhere on this site:

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Take a large flat blade screw driver, insert it into the slot on the nut and give it a "whack" with your wrist in the direction of tightening the nut.

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Spin the wheel then tighten the nut until it slows the spinning motion noticeably. Then back off just a hair. Drive it a couple of hundred miles then check to see if the nut could be tightened some more.

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Install the wheel nut and torque down very tight while rotating wheel to seat the bearings
Loosen the wheel nut until you can just barely move the washer with the tip of a screwdriver. You should not be able (or barely able) to wiggle the rotor at all when torquing the rotor top & bottom.

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It’s set correctly when you can just move the washer with a screwdriver when using the hub as leverage to move the washer.