tires and axles
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From: Bett-neee
RE: tires and axles
you also gotta remember jason alot of them D44's that hold up to that abuse your mentionings are also the HD44's... lovley jeep axles...
i have witnessed many of our D44's break during "easy" trailing,,, but like you said.. its whats under the tires that really counts..
i have witnessed many of our D44's break during "easy" trailing,,, but like you said.. its whats under the tires that really counts..
Record Breaker
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From: Gaylord, MI
RE: tires and axles
Very true, sometime shafts do just suck and are old or get a hairline crack over the course of their life, I watched a kid I live with break a shaft just getting hit rig on the trailer! But like I said, it was already weak and needed just a little more to break so it did.
To me it seems that on a DD/occasional trail rig if your beating it hard enough to break a shaft other things will go first, like body panels
Also the HD44s just have a larger bearing in the hub and are usually 8 lug, other then that they're the exact same everything.
To me it seems that on a DD/occasional trail rig if your beating it hard enough to break a shaft other things will go first, like body panels
Also the HD44s just have a larger bearing in the hub and are usually 8 lug, other then that they're the exact same everything.
