Rearend opinions for a crate

[Casper60]

If you have ever ballanced something on a radial ballancer, it just stops. If it rocks back and forth you have an out of ballance issue and the heavy spot is stopping the rotation and reversing the direction. If it were ballanced there would be no force to cause it to rotate backwards.
Go to an airport and watch the jet engines (not a nice word)(not a nice word)(not a nice word)(not a nice word) down, they do not have brakes in them and they NEVER reverse direction when they stop and if they were not perfectly ballanced they would come apart!

Why I am well aware that a balance issue causes that, the point is if your bearings are crap or overgreased, they will not rock backwards and settle.

We are not allowed to balance wheels simply for the fact promoters are worried the weights will separate and become projectiles, thus we deal with them being off balance.

[Egoracing]

Why I am well aware that a balance issue causes that, the point is if your bearings are crap or overgreased, they will not rock backwards and settle.

We are not allowed to balance wheels simply for the fact promoters are worried the weights will separate and become projectiles, thus we deal with them being off balance.

If they abruptly stop the yes you have a problem but they should NEVER change direction. The only thing that would cause them to change direction is a force acting in the opposite direction, if it is an out of ballance hub or a bearing with flat spots on the rollers there is an issue if it rotates backwards. Your wheels should be ballanced and the tires are really close due to their construction.

You also can not predict what the lube will do unless it is at operating temp. It may be as thick as clay at room temp and be the slickest thing in the world above 100 degrees.

[sj valley dave]

On my hi end mountain bike, which I know the lube is thinner and the sealed cartridge bearings much smaller, when I spin the wheel it will settle with the valve stem on the bottom, and it will gently rock back and forth a few times before it stops...

[Casper60]

On my hi end mountain bike, which I know the lube is thinner and the sealed cartridge bearings much smaller, when I spin the wheel it will settle with the valve stem on the bottom, and it will gently rock back and forth a few times before it stops...

That is pretty much where mine stop as we rotate the tire on the wheel to balance them as well as we can without using weights. I have steel valve stems that we use to try and balance them out better.

[lindsey97]

I bought the Winters rear with the 8 in ring gear option. It seems to do a good job in my crate car. It also looses 4 lbs rotating weight compared to 10 in. . I also run the Coleman prolite gears. The people at Winters were great help, I had alot of the same questions and they give me good advice. One thing they were straight up about is the low drag bearings, the offer all kind of goodies such as polished bearing. told me not to buy them as after about 1 race you would have polished bearings and it was not needed. I ended up with one step above the standard bearing, that's what they recommended for me. Now I'm just a Sat. night racer for fun, if your in it to make money, maybe the high dollar stuff is what you need. I built a new car in 2011 and went light everywhere, cut 45 lbs of rotating weight out and went with the 8 in ringgear. Had to go from a 6.48 gear to a 5.97 to keep my RPMS the same with the same motor.

[balljoint]

I bought the Winters rear with the 8 in ring gear option. It seems to do a good job in my crate car. It also looses 4 lbs rotating weight compared to 10 in. . I also run the Coleman prolite gears. The people at Winters were great help, I had alot of the same questions and they give me good advice. One thing they were straight up about is the low drag bearings, the offer all kind of goodies such as polished bearing. told me not to buy them as after about 1 race you would have polished bearings and it was not needed. I ended up with one step above the standard bearing, that's what they recommended for me. Now I'm just a Sat. night racer for fun, if your in it to make money, maybe the high dollar stuff is what you need. I built a new car in 2011 and went light everywhere, cut 45 lbs of rotating weight out and went with the 8 in ringgear. Had to go from a 6.48 gear to a 5.97 to keep my RPMS the same with the same motor.

Lindsey....Any problem with those gears? pm me

[lindsey97]

None with a CRATE motor.