Do they normally break like this??

**rangie83** · 7th July 2007, 12:37 PM

Snapped an LHR axle on monday trying to drive up a creek bank, had to take the centre out to remove the busted piece because it was too big to come out the axle tube, is this how 10 spline axles normally break??

It looks abit suss because half of the axle looks like it was never together in the first place (very clean break for half of it)

Worse bit is that I had to get towed out of the gorge by a landcruiser, then drove home with front wheel drive only.

Axle 1.jpg

Axle 2.jpg

Axle 3.jpg

**jimbo110** · 7th July 2007, 12:42 PM

Nope, usually twists the end off at the base of the spline where it enters the diff head, at the outer edge of the side gears. Thats a strange one alright.

**CraigE** · 7th July 2007, 12:43 PM

Can not say I have seen one plit like that. Normally they twist and split or split across the circumfrence not down the centre like that. Must have been some sort of metal fatigue issue.

**jimbo110** · 7th July 2007, 12:52 PM

My collection, 2 S11 and one 110

**rangie83** · 7th July 2007, 01:04 PM

I wish mine had broken like that, would have been easier to get out,

I had a strong magnet but it just didn't have enough go to pull it out of the centre,
So I had to get a long thin piece of steel (cut from someones clothes airer) and put it in the RHS after I'd pulled the axle out, then push it through the diff centre to dislodge the broken piece, then pull the center out.

**rovercare** · 7th July 2007, 01:07 PM

I would of seen 30-40 broken axles, not on the puta

never like that but

That's ****in awsome

**dullbird** · 7th July 2007, 01:12 PM

could it be possible that, that axle had a stress fracture in it and then let go

or maybea flaw in the metal from manufature only guessing here

tombraider · 7th July 2007, 01:40 PM

Originally Posted by dullbird

could it be possible that, that axle had a stress fracture in it and then let go

or maybea flaw in the metal from manufature only guessing here

Your on the money...

But I'd be leaning towards a weak point (rust/scratch etc) from previous removal and install....

Compounding the stresses and causing a fracture leading to this point here.

**sclarke** · 7th July 2007, 02:59 PM

keep that one, no one would ever believe you.

Shiet i say.....

**vnx205** · 7th July 2007, 04:41 PM

Originally Posted by rangie83

I wish mine had broken like that, would have been easier to get out,

I had a strong magnet but it just didn't have enough go to pull it out of the centre,
So I had to get a long thin piece of steel (cut from someones clothes airer) and put it in the RHS after I'd pulled the axle out, then push it through the diff centre to dislodge the broken piece, then pull the center out.

I have no idea whether this idea would work and I hope I never have to find out.
I'm sure I read in a Popular Mechanics magazine in the 1950s or 60s that a broken axle could be removed with a welding rod.
The idea was to push a piece of hose up against the broken axle and then push the welding rod (and earth I think) up the hose until it struck an arc and stuck to the axle.
Tho hose was supposed to make sure that the only thing the welding rod could touch was the axle stub.
I wonder if that would work.

Of course that would have have helped in your case.

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