I encountered the dreaded rear hub bearing blow out last weekend while practicing at a pretty bumpy track. I noticed after I ran out of gas I picked up my truck and saw my inner hub bearing's outer race on my cvd axle.
These were the factory bearings, I have a complete Boca Bearing Ceramic kit coming and gonna change em' all out before race season starts next week. Its funny I raced all last season and not a single bearing blowout, I have had the truck on the track three times now and a blow out already.

mine wouldnt steer well out of the box either, i went to shorter wheel base, 3degree rear toe, and 4k in the rear, the truck turns really good now, couldnt be happier

Aaron,
There was a bad batch of bearings. But, you also need to take out the side play in the rear axels. Use LOSB3951 13mm shims. $3.00 You will like these. Mike Stanton

13mm shim's for the axle ? you need a 8mm shim for the axle hex's.

these are what you need for shimming the hex's.....i would recommend leaving a tick of play in them tho....as if you take up all the slop you will junk out bearings even faster.

http://www.amainhobbies.com/product_...oducts_id/4067

here's a pic of the new 2.0 hubs that i just modded

Whats Up Integra? I said 13mm for the axel. Of coarse you wouldn't shim it tight. 1 shim is all you need. I've helped several with this and they all have loved it. You are thinking of the other end. Shims on that end get trashed from the pin. If you do it from the other end they will never get trashed.

What did you use to mod those with?

I finally took the time to upload some pix of my rig, so here it is. Nothing special just an 8T 2.0 with some options. Body is painted by Chuck at Ridgeway bodies. www.ridgewaybodies.com.

I received my J-Dub special rear hubs today with the larger otter bearings. I hope this will solve the re-occurring bearing issue. I will post after a few races. Thanks J-Dub the workmanship is factory quality.

ah i see what your talkin about now....hrmm never though of it that way...but my shims are not being "thrashed" from the pin as the pin is nowhere near them.

Thanks for the tip I will pick me up some 13mm shimms.

you will have finer adjustment with the Kyosho kit as it comes with .1 .2 and .3's.

why no prefilter ?

I knew someone would comment on that. It is just off for cleaning.

Do we need to put o-rings under the radio tray like the 1.0?