Dana 44's and 37's
07-25-2015, 05:23 AM
#21
My group is much like everyone here were all running 35", 37" and having good luck so far! But the other night one of my friends saw a stock Sahara sitting beside the highway left wheel bent in long side tube fully broken at the UCA. That sucks and makes me think there may be a lot of flaws in the tubes coming in the JK. There are enough of us lucky folks out there that you would never expect a stocker to crack?
My friend & I are doing a sleeve & Artec truss on a Ruby 44 right now and it's going in an XJ and hopefully get rid of all the funky steering on that thing and have a better front axle assembly as well.
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07-25-2015, 06:04 AM
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I know I gave my word of caution, but just saw this picture and wanted to reiterate it. While people are not out breaking axles everyday, it can happen, even with the right precautions. Picture attached is of an axle with weld in axle sleeves. Guy was commuting home from work, pulled in the driveway and heard a pop. Came out a bit later to fluid in the driveway and found his axle broken. Good news is that the sleeves prevented more serious damage or even an accident.
Point is, you have to at least understand that you are playing the odds. Good chance it won't happen, but possible that it could. And be mentally prepared for the cost to fix it should it happen. What I have found interesting is the number of broken axles I have been seeing lately that are sleeved or trussed. It helps, but I am starting to question how much it helps. Maybe my local club is an anomaly, but we have a pretty high rate of bent and broken axles. I'd say most of them are not on forums. I've often suggested that there is a lack of data points resulting in a bias view that axle issues are rare. I think most of those data points don't make it to the forums.
<img src="https://www.jk-forum.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=619117"/>
Point is, you have to at least understand that you are playing the odds. Good chance it won't happen, but possible that it could. And be mentally prepared for the cost to fix it should it happen. What I have found interesting is the number of broken axles I have been seeing lately that are sleeved or trussed. It helps, but I am starting to question how much it helps. Maybe my local club is an anomaly, but we have a pretty high rate of bent and broken axles. I'd say most of them are not on forums. I've often suggested that there is a lack of data points resulting in a bias view that axle issues are rare. I think most of those data points don't make it to the forums.
<img src="https://www.jk-forum.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=619117"/>
