stevensa

I finally installed a set of SKF HD wheel bearings on my C5. As I was installing the rears, I noticed that you lose about 0.8" of axle spline engagement with the SKF bearing when compared to the OEM bearing. The OEM bearing has splines cut all the way to the inside of the bearing, where the SKF the has the spines recessed. This leaves only ~1" of axle spline engagement.

Is this correct/normal? Has anyone ever ran into issues with damaged axles/wheel bearings from the lower amount of spline engagement? I know that axle splines are extremely strong, just wanted to make sure everything was good to go.







Depth of recessed splines in SKF bearing




Depth of SKF bearing splines carried over to the axle. The base of the dial caliper shows where the spline engagement starts.

RX-Ben

no issue.

Last C5

580 to the wheels, tracked regularly, and no issues.

SouthernSon

Track what you want. I have replaced too many OEM bearings. I run SKF.

555ss

5 years on the track 392 to the wheels.. no issues\
even destroyed the rear end case and broke the output shaft of the trans drag racing due to wheel hop and no issues with the spline at the hub

0Anthony @ LGMotorsports

Ran them on all of the road race cars with no issues. While those cars don't make stupid power they are on slicks and do take quite the pounding, especially on the sequential trans cars.

We have ran them on 1000 rwhp street cars on slicks with no issues, be it those cars typically all have aftermarket axles in them

stevensa

That's what I figured, but thought I would check just in case. Thanks guys!