With ball bearings such as stock has you can tighten the axlenut tightly since it is just sandwiching the inner races of bearings,brakehub,sprocket hub and spacer together as long as spacer doesnt distort there is no pressure on the bearings themselves.Tapered if you tighten it to tight bearings will bind so your brake hub has to be freefloating on the splines which are aluminum on our stock hubs.Get a Lonestar or RPM hub which has steel splines and then I am all for tapered.A hub and carrier would probably cost around $450.My stock ones lasted 2 years.The bearings can be had anywhere all four are around $60.Just have to check them once in awhile.
lol, alright guys..so most of you are saying stock is best..where to get stock? ebay? or atk?
i need the 4 bearings and i need new seals and need the washers that go on the outside of the brake hub, and inside of the sprocket hub as they are the things that got out of line and trashed everything
umm..he explained it, but i can't reiterated it..kinda forgot..something like the tube that is inside the bearing carrier is actually just too short and could use a larger one to consolidate for the amount you need to tighten down your axle lock nut and it keeps teh bearings tighter, longer. I'm not really sure, but my bearings were basically trashed and we couldn't get them out without doing a lot of work at the shop which we can't get to until next week ( too soon to the race) so we needed stuff quick and big winky came through n is able to get us a part that will just slide right into my problem area
I believe your still going to have to get the bearings out to replace that spacer tube. I know my spacer wont come out without removing the one side of the bearings.