There are tons of aftermarket options for the front. Pick whatever name makes you feel most warm and fuzzy. Not tons of options for the rear. Rossport is your best bet there. If you're not beating the car around a track on a regular basis you don't have much to worry about.

 

I may take you up on that if I don't come up with another option. I am currently in morrice where my girlfriend lives at the moment. I did check today again and I have no play at all so idk wtf is going on.the car just makes a noise when I drive and it could be road noise it doesn't change at all it gets louder when I go faster but you can hardly hear it over my exhaust. I will keep in touch with you for sure.

 

Thank you for that I will keep that in mind. I don't really track the car except for the shootout I may do test n tune or this year I am doing the 10.5 index so it will see some track. It's nice to know about Ross Sport though thanks for that.

 

I recently did mine-- went GMB, i have some experience with other parts of theirs and they are also of quality w/o breaking the bank.

 

Tha is for the response, I will have to look at these as well. I think at this point it is going to be preemptive maintenance to do these plus I rather be safe the sorry just in case I was wrong lol.

 

lol my pro bearings ceramic bearings failed.

gonna try to find some oe equivalent, probably timken

 

Now i am back to work, I work for SKF but yeah you don't really wanna know what they charge for their ceramic stuff. I inquired for my car just to see and they wanted 5k just for the fronts and I work for them my cost lol its like wtf.

 

yeah I paid 2k for all 4 which I guess isn't terrible but my working theory is that these are more for drag cars than track cars that hit curbs and stuff like that. idk.

you have hook ups for non ceramic stuff that fits our cars?

 

Idk to be honest. I think they would be rather expensive and easier to get them on the open market. I recall saying something to one of the head guys here and he kinda didn't seem interested in hearing about what I was asking

 

how did you find out it failed? I've used genuine mitsu, timken and several in the $35 range and I havent seen 'failure'. i just have backups and swap them out when i'm working around that area. i give the $35 ones about 1.5-2years of mostly autox and I keep the old set as emergency backup. once the shop working on my transmission asked for my backup front hubs, not sure what happened there

 

Actually the alignment shop found it. There was a noise but I thought it was one of those self-clearance noises you sometimes get on the car lol. movement on front end bearing when jacked and grabbing the wheel at 12 & 6. I have a video of it, it's audible when you are rocking it back and forth, a clunking.

OEM ~ $1,500 - MAP/Mitsu still has these

I grabbed some BCA's from RockAuto, which are made (and stamped) by NTN Japan - OEM for a lot of Japanese car brands. They don't even show up on the list in RockAuto anymore, might have grabbed the last ones. $500 shipped for all 4 corners. BCA WE61518 for front, BCA WE60484 for rear.

Pro Bearings wants me to ship them the failed parts for rebuilds - they say it's gonna be much cheaper to rebuild (cuz the original purchase was fkn $2k). It'll be good to have a spare set but I'm just not confident in the quality of these - I really didn't drive the car much since 2022, so it's shocking that these wheel bearings failed given their claims that it'd be more durable than OEM.

 

I've been selling BCA for a decade. It's a good brand. Most of the hub and bearing assemblies are made in USA/Japan. I grabbed the last rear BCA bearing on rockauto, cus why not at this point. I had no idea 2g DSM hubs were the same as 8/9. Also bought the only front and rear BCA left in Fisher/Federated, which services Ohio-Maine-Virginia. Hub assembly availability may become a problem going forward.

 

i was wondering who grabbed it - as soon as i ordered they went completely out of stock.

my entire rear wheel hub assembly sheared on the right side sooo i need to go oem to grab the new hub assembly too

 

sht my bad lol

I still have your factory hubs if you want them back lmk!

 

hahaha no worries - I forgot I even sent it to you.

pro bearings wants to rebuild the ceramics i have too, so i'll have oem in the car, the BCA/NTN Japan stamped rear bearings, plus the ceramic bearings. I think I'm set, lmao.

FWIW dallas recommended 200lbft for the axle nuts which is... a lot