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rear axle carnage
Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 1:16 am
by NMB2
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
Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 11:32 am
by Dreded
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.
Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 12:14 pm
by NMB2
umm...no the sping clip didnt break...do you not notice my extreme u-joint angle and all the 90 weight around everything??
Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 12:46 pm
by Nobody
did it rip a chunk out of the tube?
Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 2:19 pm
by NMB2
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
Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 9:55 pm
by Dreded
and your spring clip is broken
iv never seen an axle do that b4
Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 10:49 pm
by NMB2
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