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soo.... I was under the impression that the bearings could be ran just fine without the axle shafts and all the components associated with the axle shafts (Axle center nut). In an attempt to isolate the front differential to stop the pinion from moving (pinion bearing is shot) ......
Tonight I removed both shafts. Went for a test drive. Something immediately did not feel right with the front brakes (they were not working) I made it down the road from the shop about 100 yard, took one right hand turn onto the main road, was still trying to pump up the brakes, accelerated a little, made it to approximately 25-35mph (no speedo) and wammm the right Hub's Bearing separated... Long story short, that bearing has less than 3,000 miles on it, I've only had it for about 4 months, it's seen one trip to RC. It was the better of the two bearings, but still.... Took the brackets for the calipers clean off the knuckles with it. Jeep skidded to a stop and I was able to keep it in the lane fortunately, I think the tire is even still intact. IT was just dangling by the brake line, which from what I can tell is also still intact.
Got it back in the shop with the bucket tractor with Dan Potter's superb operating skills. Tomorrow I'm gonna try hunting down another knuckle and bearing..... thank god the rear brakes work as good as they do and I wasn't going faster, and was wearing my seatbelt ...
i'll try and get some aftermath pics tomorrow
Tonight I removed both shafts. Went for a test drive. Something immediately did not feel right with the front brakes (they were not working) I made it down the road from the shop about 100 yard, took one right hand turn onto the main road, was still trying to pump up the brakes, accelerated a little, made it to approximately 25-35mph (no speedo) and wammm the right Hub's Bearing separated... Long story short, that bearing has less than 3,000 miles on it, I've only had it for about 4 months, it's seen one trip to RC. It was the better of the two bearings, but still.... Took the brackets for the calipers clean off the knuckles with it. Jeep skidded to a stop and I was able to keep it in the lane fortunately, I think the tire is even still intact. IT was just dangling by the brake line, which from what I can tell is also still intact.
Got it back in the shop with the bucket tractor with Dan Potter's superb operating skills. Tomorrow I'm gonna try hunting down another knuckle and bearing..... thank god the rear brakes work as good as they do and I wasn't going faster, and was wearing my seatbelt ...
i'll try and get some aftermath pics tomorrow
So think what your telling me is that If I wanted to Keep the diff from moving, I would have to separate each axle shaft at the U joints and run just the outer part of the shaft. Right?
whatta cluster fuck this is. I was so pissed I was about to call whoever the fuck makes that shitty bearing I bought at 2AM asking them how they sleep at night 
It's the last week of classes, I'm flat broke, don't even have enough money for a new knuckle/ball joints and yet another wheel bearing. I shoulda spent the night doing the pinion bearing and be done with it. 
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