Broke rear axles?
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I was just curious how many have broken rear 8.0 axles and what tire size, gear ratio, what broke and what were you doing when it broke. Trying to figure just how strong it is!
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Google trailvoy for my thread mentioning Montrose, CO.
If you wheel hard, be ready for when it breaks. Took me 4 years. YMMV.
If you wheel hard, be ready for when it breaks. Took me 4 years. YMMV.
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Took me 6 months. 32" tires, 4.10 gears. Turned the G80 into metal dust.
Doing this... (this is after a new stronger axle with a real locker and 35s) I broke in the exact place that I got hung up here, doing the exact same thing trying to get over it.
Doing this... (this is after a new stronger axle with a real locker and 35s) I broke in the exact place that I got hung up here, doing the exact same thing trying to get over it.
I own too many vehicles now. Let's leave it at that.
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So are any of the parts swapable between the two? Axle shafts, berrings, I think I have read the brakes are the same.
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Almost nothing. The axles especially have more splines on the larger unit. No reason to swap parts anyway. Just get the larger entire assembly from the junkyard/auto recycler.TBNewbie wrote:So are any of the parts swapable between the two?
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off topic... fish, that place looks like so much fun!
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DirtyBacon04 wrote:off topic... fish, that place looks like so much fun!
Too bad you never headed north before heading east.
That big rock in the middle is known to EVERYONE as "the rock." I personally know half a dozen people (myself included) who've broken axles there. I have some custom work done on my left rear wheel from a subsequent run at that same spot. It was slick out and I was up too high on the right side wall.
It doesn't look like much in the video but that spot is tricky.
I own too many vehicles now. Let's leave it at that.
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i know. I wish i found this site when I first bought my TB back in 08. I'd be up with y'all in experience by now. Damn... Shoulda, coulda, woulda's....
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You could have been one of only three of our trucks to ever run (part of) the Rubicon. Now you got swamp.DirtyBacon04 wrote:i know. I wish i found this site when I first bought my TB back in 08.
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But hey, I'm still the only 360 to attempt pinyon squeeze!
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DirtyBacon04 wrote:
But hey, I'm still the only 360 to attempt pinyon squeeze!
BOTH ways!
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