Axle breakage

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Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

A rare earth magnet firmly wedged into a bit of hose clamped onto a rod will also get them out...

you can also try a curved peice of 6mm rod threaded through the filler plug to drift the bit out of the center (if thats where its stuck)

once its out of the spider gear in the diff its surprisingly easy to get the pieces out, Ive even used my magnet on a stick with a torch to pull a 5-6 inch long chunk out of the front diff of a perentie.

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That's of course if your happy to leave chunks if metal floating around inside your diff...

you need to get that 6 inch chunk out of the diff before you can pull the diff to clean it out it was one of those days the prop was off , both swivels unbolted from the flanges and the good side cleared to get the driving rod in but the chunk kept falling back and wedging against the bearing carrier stopping us from pulling the diff carrier out.

I'd just been given one of those torches with the magnet on the end of an extending rod, in typical fashion gave it what the hell, why not and lo that little magnet on the rod pulled the chunk all the way up the axle tube.

Fortunately there was enough length left on the axle that we could do the Axle change without having to strip the Ball joint down.

How much is it to replace with Ashcroft axels - Flanges - cvs and is it difficult to change out.

Cheers


Dan

The heavy duty axles for the rear from Paddocks in england are 360 pounds including vat plus postage which brings them awfully close to the $800 odd dollars I've seen quoted here. Don't know if they're ashcrofts though.

Hey Dan,

I got mine (front and rear half shafts, drive flanges and CV's) for $2200 delivered to the door, took 7 days to arrive. That was about 12months or so ago.

Ashcroft’s will break up the order so you can avoid the import taxes and you don't pay VAT (value added tax) as you are an over sea's customer.

Fitting is reasonable easy if your handy with the spanners. I changed over to oil lubed bearing while I was at it. That was just a matter of removing the inner seal and replacing the outer's with oil seal instead of the grease seals.

Cheers

No VAT? That's handy to know. I'm also not sure if their 300 pounds includes any delivery costs but assume it doesn't. Currently 300 pds = $464 AUD so allowing say 20 pounds or $30 you're saving around $200 AUD. Forgot, add $40 for flanges and yes the axles are Ashcrofts :)

Buy them direct from Ashcroft..
Front half shafts = 245Gbp
Rear half shafts = 260Gbp
Drive flanges =. 90Gbp per pair
CV's =. 455Gpb

Ashcroft Transmissions


Cheers

Surely Cheaper to get the stuff from High Tough than from ashcrofts. Which I believe to be stronger than ashcrofts anyway.

5 year warranty with Ashcroft, you won't get that anywhere else.....;)

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Originally Posted by isuzurover

With a detroit or TT you run the risk of destroying your centre diff.

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Hi Isuzurover, I have a TT in the front of mine. Can you elaborate on what you mean in your quote? And how do you suggest to deal with a broken half shaft or CV in the front with a TT.

cheers MLD