Is the broken 'race' on my front hub a problem?
My front hub has 'races' (is that the right word?): a piece of metal
in which the bearings sit. On one side the outer half of the race
has detached from the inner part (but with completely clean edges:
it must have been made in 2 pieces). After I pack the bearings I
put the side with the attached race down, push the axle from the
bottom (cone attached for the bottom side), mount the top half of
the other race, then that side's cone. I notice that the attached
part of this race rotates on its own. I can't tell about the other
side.
Is this a problem?
What I usually call a race is a piece of metal that holds the
bearings, a toroid with an occlusion for each bearing. I think
that's just to make it easier to build, perhaps for machines.
That's not what I'm talking about.