rear axle carnage

NMB2 · Post by **NMB2** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 1:16 am

soo uhh yeah....

do this a couple of times....

and then some of these....

and im sure the 4ft of air in cle elum helped provoke it...and you get this

fucken beautiful huh? whatcha think

Dreded · Post by **Dreded** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 11:32 am

took me a second to figure out what we where looking at :) I had the same thing happen to me if its the spring clip that broke that we where supposed to notice.

I just replaced it with a couple of large hoseclamps hasnt happened since.

NMB2 · Post by **NMB2** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 12:14 pm

umm...no the sping clip didnt break...do you not notice my extreme u-joint angle and all the 90 weight around everything??

Post by **Nobody** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 12:46 pm

did it rip a chunk out of the tube?

NMB2 · Post by **NMB2** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 2:19 pm

sorta...both sides got smashed....but one definatly did it first..cuz its smashed..and then the other couldnt handle the stress of wheeling i suppose and it twisted and smashed...tearing part of the housing open. thus... 90 weight

Dreded · Post by **Dreded** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 9:55 pm

and your spring clip is broken

iv never seen an axle do that b4

NMB2 · Post by **NMB2** » Sun Oct 09, 2005 10:49 pm

what really caused it...was my lack of knowledge when we welded those perches on some 8 months ago...we got the tubes really hot using 170amps on an arc welder and ran 3 beads on each side...ruined the metal..one side let go..then all the stress of the axle trying to wrap caved that one side of the tube in...soo i got a housing 2.5" narrower for less leverage, 1.25" wheelspacers. trussed it and got 1/4" tube..cut in half and put it on the bottoms of the tube where the u-bolts wrap around so they dont dig..and i torqed them on properly instead of with the impact