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Old 01-21-2010, 10:03 PM
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Originally Posted by wingracer
Have you run any new fronts yet? How is the wheel bearing problem?

Our LHS got an order of Jaco XXPink fronts and Orange rears in this afternoon after +/- 2 months of backorder/unavailable. They were hand delivered straight from RCAmerica. First thing I did was take a set of fronts out of the box and grab a bearing out of the case. For at least the box that I checked the bearings still fit WAY loose; especially the outer hole still. I estimated about 1 mm play in the front wheel bearing.


In fact we were joking it would almost be better to leave the wheel solid in the center with a center mark and let the end user drill the hole out. I could make a pretty decent hole with a bench press and the right sized bit, hahaha
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