Anyone have an idea of what might have happened here?
Left side rear wheel (right side wheels look perfect on the inside):
Looks like perhaps a rock (or rocks) got caught up between the hub and the inside of the wheel? You can see all the nicks in the plastic rod end and the nicks in the rear hub. The right side looks perfectly fine. No damage. On the wheel, there are grooves in the plastic. It's not discoloration. Looks like the tape I used to cover the holes in the Pro-Line wheels and at least one of my stick on weights were hit as well. I mounted the wheel, and I cannot see how the wheel could flex enough on its own to do that, so I'm thinking it has to be debris of some kind, as there were plenty of small rocks and pebbles on the ground I was running the car on.
Any ideas? Surely the bearings aren't so sloppy that the wheel is moving that much?
I've never seen anything like that. You say the brown lines are grooves? How in the world? I can't even see something loose in there making those grooves perfectly straight like that. That's crazy. It's not fluid?
Last edited by GreggW; 02-21-2011 at 12:42 PM.