wayoflife

the rockkralwer kit is very nice but i wanted to keep my teraflex short arms and do a test with coilovers. i knew that off road evolution had been working hard at fine tuning their spring rates and valving and after talking to them about it at length, i was sold. of course, they are the only ones who have a coilover solution for the rear and as you know, they were able to do this through the use of their evo lever system.

unfortuantely, i don't know as didn't get a chance to give it a thorough enough look. however, i'm sure rockkrawler can help you out with this one

Littlejon

I would agree with that. My other main issue with trussing an axle is that when Currie, or other companies do it the prebend the axle because you are welding on one side, and it will cause your axle to bend slightly. There is no way around this and so the only way to really do it correctly is to pre-bend the tubes, and then weld. Once you are at this stage you might as well go with a entirely new axle weather it is the new Dyna Trac 44 so you can reuse the internals of a Rubi, or a Rock Jock 60.

wayoflife

yup, exactly

VictorS

JK front axles do break:





I would think sleeving the tube will strengthen the tube considerably. Its much cheaper than spending $6000 for a new D60 front axle or even $2000 for a dyntrac d44 housing. In addtion to sleeving, add EVO C gussets and a stonger trackbar brace, and you'll have a fairly stout axle for less than $300 dls.

wayoflife

and, as i stated before, they shouldn't. at least, not like that anyway. i am the one who took one of those photos you posted and showed it to all my industry contacts and all of them have told me that an axle tube should not shatter like that - bend, sure but catastrophically break like that, no. in fact, i can tell you that in the photo i took, chrysler replaced the broken axle under warranty and since these early breaks, i have not heard of any more problems like it.

porters

I live just down the road a bit from Mt Logan, and they quoted me $200 to sleeve and gusset my D30 out the door both parts and labor. For that price how can I refuse?

vgullotta

Interesting, I wonder if there's a local shop in the SF Bay Area that would do this for that cheap. $200 to worry a lot less about my D30 would make me happy.

rocknredrubi

Dumb question. Can you get to your axle seals after installing those sleeves?

porters

They say they leave about a half inch between the sleeves and the seals so you can get them out.

wayoflife

the tubes on the D30 are the same on the D44. what you should be concerned with is not the D30 axle tubes but rather, the shafts and u-joints being used. trust me, you would be better served using your money to buy a set of new chromoly shafts.