i've been having my brakes fade and i would have to bleed them every trip. today i noticed the whole disk moved away from the bearing carrier and actually started to grind into outside of the caliper so i began taking the axle out to inspect the bearings and found that the flangeside ring is cracked and bound up against the flange. i havent taken the stub axle completely out yet and cant confirm yet but it looks like there is a roller bearing on the inside vs. a ball bearing, is this correct? i always thought it should have a ballbearing on the inside and a roller bearing on the outside. the way it is now there is roller bearings on both sides of the spacers

here is a pic of the inner bearing, wierd how the seal got beat up

Maybe came loose? Those nuts have to torque to 270 ft lbs.

they were hand tight when i got the car back and i torked them myself and they were still tight when i took them off tonight. it was the wrong bearing in there though

No, both bearings should be a roller. VW used ball bearings only on very early swing axle transaxles.

And the axle nut torque should be whatever the brake manufacturer states. For stock VW it is 217 ft-lbs. CNC states to torque their kits to 300 ft-lbs.

these particular housings wont work with two rollers in them for some reason, i had a brake problem before when i first bought the car and one trailing arm had two rollers and the other had ball & roller bearings. swapped them all out for the correct bearings and the problem went away.
when they built my new arms they cut up my old 3x3's to get the bearing housings and they installed the passenger side correctly w/ the ball bearing on the inside and the roller on the outside, on the driverside they installed two roller bearings and has brake problems.
i think most people that run stub axle brakes use B.bearing on the inside and the R.bearing on the outside aswell with no problems