Dude! Did your bearing bind and that made your axle snap? WoW! I was thinking about packing the he!! out of them till I could afford new ones, but not now! The bad thing is, I don't yet know what the pass. side looks like and sitting in the car it kinda sounds like that is the side the noise is coming from, but it really is hard to tell.
Thanks all for the replies! As usual, y'all are a wealth of info!