pearl-drum-man

Congrats, hope they work out! With those tires you need them.

JPTwinz

mkjeep, thank you for the humor I've got alot of $ in my Jeep and it's still no where near where I would ultimately like it to be. Spending $8k+ on a front Dana 60 is just not in my cards right now and even though this upgrade isn't anywhere comparable to a Dana 60 upgrade, it shouldn't be discredited.

This upgrade is just another part to help what I have last a while longer. Like WOL pointed out (and I said earlier in this thread), the weak point of the axle is just transferred to the next weakest link. Though hopefully by not having u-joints that tend to bind, my chromoly shafts won't flex as hard as WOL's did causing damage to components that are not inexpensive to fix.

JPTwinz

Lo2ay....you're not that far away from us, you should try to come down sometime!

wayoflife

for the record, when my shaft broke, i was just climbing straight up a stupid rock that decided to roll out from under my tire and when my spinning tire dropped down and bit onto the solid ground below - BANG!! bind and flex had nothing to do with my break - just too much torque with too big of a tire on a shaft too weak to stand up to the forces it was being subjected to. after playing really hard for over a year and a half, i really would have tought and wished my u-joints would be the first to go but unfortunately, they held up too well and ultimately, it was the shaft itself that gave out.

having said all that, your new shafts are really nice and as mentioned before, i hope you never have to have them warranteed.

4x4LOYR

My new axle shafts jsut arrived:

JPTwinz

Here's mine installed with a few pics during the installation. It was extremely easy and took no more than an hour (minus a few beer breaks). HUGE thanks to Axsys for leading the install and to RubiJK for the use of his driveway

JPTwinz

lol....that's my wife and she's thinking why the hell am I standing out here in 115 degree weather! This install was a kick off before a big AZ Jkers party.