Green bearings for street

On an 8 3/4 axle for a b body - I installed the axles with green bearings and the thrust block in place. Not cool. The axles bottomed out on the block and the flanges of the green bearings started to bend when I started to tighten them down. Bad. So from my perspective you do need to remove the center thrust block from the differential if you intend to use green bearings.

Otherwise I never had a lick of problems with them, and Ford has used ball bearings in their famed 9 inch axles forever. Should be just fine for most uses except something like road racing.

Nice not having to do the end play adjustment as well, although I have not had problems setting the end play on axles with the tapered bearings either, just requires patience is all.