Thread: what to do if I break an axle

Like i said, I generally drive fairly easy on the vehicle and to suit the conditions so nothing should happen. But at least now if it does go 'POP' then I should be able to figure out what it was and how to get home ok.

Maybe next time you take out another group on a trip clarky ill tag along and you can show me how its done.
Thanks for the replies guys

Originally Posted by rovercare

???? Their the same in the front and practically the same size, spline count and material in the rear, why do you think they're any stronger?

Not all of them...

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Originally Posted by sclarke

Blah..... drive it right and dont go nuts and you wont break anything....

i do some gnarly stuff and i have not yet broken anything. ok i twisted a tailshaft from sitting on a rock, but otherwise... i have not broken a CV or Axle...

the biggest killer is too much right foot when the traction is not there, then when you get traction the torque has to go somewhere..... and it does.... then POP

I'd second that. I've never broken anything off-road!

I've seen pleny happen and it has usually been through too much right foot at the wrong time.

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Originally Posted by camel_landy

Not all of them...

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More details please?? what ones?? what's the difference??

On my first attempt at trying to fit that 4.7:1 Maxi Drive in my stage one, I found both front half shaft in perfect condition. I found that I couldn't fit the locker so put it all back together.

Went to Lancruiser park, tried the hard stuff, got home and then pulled it all apart to put in the modified Maxi locker and found one of my half shafts had a 10deg twist in the spline on the diff side .... Quite possibly too much right foot on some of those extreme tracks... It now has Maxi front axles now

Originally Posted by rovercare

More details please?? what ones?? what's the difference??

I don't know chapter & verse but I know that differences exist.

The basic differences are usually with the number of splines, on top of that, there are some where the flanges & axles are a 1 piece unit (typically fitted to the Disco). Then there are the HD version of the axles - IIRC, available as an option on the Salisbury & some slight differences over the years in the front CV joints.

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