Quote Originally Posted by Rob T View Post
If you go back to the fourth picture above, you can see where the break happened and the resulting displacement of metal. The axle threads are not damaged and the axle splines appear to be intact. As for the bearing wear/looseness, I think that is possible. However, after my last track session I pushed, prodded, rolled, levered the wheel to see if I could figure out if there was any issues that would cause the brake dragging. While I am not an expert on bearings, there was no apparent looseness, that I could detect nor any sounds....I am not saying that everything was right. I just didn't see or hear anything wrong. More to come...
Ohhh boy. Sorry to hear that Rob. The curse continues dang it. It sounds like a bearing/hub failure if I'm reading everything correctly. Are you sure the axel nut didn't come off first? Technically, you are not supposed to reuse axel nuts on a race car. If you do, make sure to use Red Loctite for piece of mind. I would put bearings on the list to replace every so often to be safe.

Sure you don't want an NP01 ? I'm still just putting oil and gas in it and running it like I stole it for 5+ years.