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Sparkly oil - Final Drive issue

A few photos showing a bit of the chattered surface of the bearing races.

Outer race
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Notice how the wear is only on part of the surface. I presume it only failed where there was the heaviest or lightest load. This wear covers around 2/5ths of the outer bearing's inner surface. Scary, eh? If you're not familiar with these things, they're supposed to be smooooooth

The inner race
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Yep! Both mine looked the same :nod until I removed some preload. The jury is now out.
 
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