As I've said before, LOTS of people here in Germany have had the same problem.. The knuckles themselves may be strong, but the threads are of butter...

The stupid screw on the top I had to replace, as it was like totally smoothed over with dried up thread-lock... [sm=confused.gif]

I should've taken a pic when I was wrenching today - the lower hole on the right front is totally egg-shaped...

I have already two of the Hyper silver cheapo ones as backups, so I guess I'm alright. On my old Lightning GT I broke one of the stock ones - but only one.. And I bashed that truck hard, and it had huge heavy wheels.. I gotta think the silver cheapo ones are good for at least a few races....