I just purchased the Hostile one piece hubs last week to get rid of those sloppy stock plastic things.
http://www.davesmotors.com/s.nl/c.88...t.A/id.7180/.f
Nice quality! If anyone ends up getting these babies, you'll love them. I ran into 2 little hiccups:
1) My fault, I didn't install the bearings per the instructions. Heat your oven to 200 degrees, put the hubs in there for about 15 minutes. At the same time, put your bearings in the freezer for about 15 minutes. Pull the hubs out and the bearings pretty much drop into place.
2) If you have the rear Vertigo axle extenders like I do, you may have trouble getting the pin into the axle. To remedy this, and I hated to do it, I had to grind down the back of the extenders so the axle pin would drop in. The raised parts on the back kept pushing too hard into the bearing so grinding was the only option other than changing out to some other brand of extenders. Ground the back down until it was flat and I had no problem with the axle pin dropping into the axle and everything spinning like it should.
No slop anywhere after the install. I also hope to get these to replace the plastic ball ends:
http://www.davesmotors.com/s.nl/c.88...t.A/id.7372/.f
I haven't had an opportunity to run them yet, but as soon as the rain stops today, I hope to get out and give them a try.
http://www.davesmotors.com/s.nl/c.88...t.A/id.7180/.f
Nice quality! If anyone ends up getting these babies, you'll love them. I ran into 2 little hiccups:
1) My fault, I didn't install the bearings per the instructions. Heat your oven to 200 degrees, put the hubs in there for about 15 minutes. At the same time, put your bearings in the freezer for about 15 minutes. Pull the hubs out and the bearings pretty much drop into place.
2) If you have the rear Vertigo axle extenders like I do, you may have trouble getting the pin into the axle. To remedy this, and I hated to do it, I had to grind down the back of the extenders so the axle pin would drop in. The raised parts on the back kept pushing too hard into the bearing so grinding was the only option other than changing out to some other brand of extenders. Ground the back down until it was flat and I had no problem with the axle pin dropping into the axle and everything spinning like it should.
No slop anywhere after the install. I also hope to get these to replace the plastic ball ends:
http://www.davesmotors.com/s.nl/c.88...t.A/id.7372/.f
I haven't had an opportunity to run them yet, but as soon as the rain stops today, I hope to get out and give them a try.
