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I didn't say roll over.
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What happened?
I heard he died trying to tow too much.
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Absolutely no idea! I speculate that they need white claws, parts and lube.
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Looks Awesome. I agree on the bumper. I just remove the end horns when I run tougher trails, like in Sand Hollow. I dont have anywhere near your ground clearance and ive never had an issue with it hitting on obstacles on approach.
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Seems the puppers isn’t the only one doing some fishing…
I think if you state reality by saying “x thing broke” when that thing is made by this particular company they get big sad and cry.
She got it out though. Learned some more on the portals too. More details to follow when I get time
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Where's the axle shaft photos?
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Impressive! So did 74Weld next day air one your way? Are you even on speaking terms with them? Or did you just pull and limp it out?
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Next day air services are reserved for influencers, you silly goose. Or rigs that have structural breaks in the middle of the trail that will be used for the races that they tout so much on all their marketing. Gotta get it out of sight so they can keep talking about how strong everything is!
I’m not even gonna bother hitting them up. When the rear bracket fell off and caused over a grand in damage, not including the wheel or the rotor that you can only get from them, they simply gave me a price for another rotor. But, to be fair, by installing my brackets on to the portals instead of waiting 6-8 weeks on theirs and then driving 600-800 miles (on brackets that fell off in 200 miles and they would not answer or even acknowledge the question when asked if they were safe to drive that far) they did say my warranty would be voided. I’ll simply get my own axles made. I cut it off after the tone ring and put it back in the portal as a seal. And by seal I mean the portal box will still be leaking into the axle housing as we have found, but it’s better than a gaping hole.
The next question is whether a new housing is needed. Looks like it tore some shit up in there. Shame as this axle only has 1600 miles on it. 15 of them offroad.
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On the note of limping it out-quite the learning experience. It seemed like the dead portal acted like an anchor over the smallest of ledges to climb. Naturally with the diff locked the opposite side is spinning and will push your front end to the side when the dead portal would get hung up, but it was very very different trying to pull the unpowered portal corners vs pushing the fronts up and over. We aired the dead corner up completely but still-anchor effect. It was like trail turn assist was on and dialed up to 11. We would have to adjust the lines to try to get that corner to hit first, but as you know that isn’t always possible. Would often disengage the rear locker and just let the fronts try to do the work, but now you effectively have two anchors. Had to take a winch or rope quite often with this situation. Wifey picked up on how to fight it but still-not always possible to simply take an alternative line on the Rubicon. Seems like there might be an explanation somewhere in this observation as to why the race guys don’t run portals in the back.
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Your not the first to kill a Semi Float Dana 60 rear. Just wonder if it really is safe to run something stronger and risk nuking a portal on the trail.
Interesting that you had issue with the portal free spinning limping out. I would definitely crack the box when you get home and check the bearings. I have a hard time believing it was just gear drag.
Interesting that you had issue with the portal free spinning limping out. I would definitely crack the box when you get home and check the bearings. I have a hard time believing it was just gear drag.
Except that is a full float Dana 44 with aftermarket hardened axles. I doubt you could mate those to a Dana 60 without changing the gears in the portal.... Axle diameter and teeth would probably not match.
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Full float dana 44 on 1.22 gear reduction, but yeah. Honestly if it weren’t for all the other shortcuts these guys have took in their production, the axle is not really something I would be giving them shit for. Fatigue is accumulative. Bend a piece of metal enough times and it will always break. Especially if that metal is 300m sourced from temu.
My picture must not have been clear. My bad. I got pretty good with photoshop during my free trial but wasn’t going to pay for an extended license. (See attached) Still learning the new editing app. The gears and bearings are fine. No unusual drag and the temps are always within a few degrees of the other side every time I’ve checked them on the way home. (Check at each stop. ~155F with diff at 195-200F)
My thought is that the lever (portal) sticking straight down is having a detrimental impact on the suspension. The tire is no longer centered with the axle, and getting pulled up a ledge is very different with a portal versus conventional setups. We definitely noticed the lateral movement was exasperated with the dead portal. So much so that it bent the 3/16” tab for the swaybar then snapped the link. Good news though-wifey’s weld was solid! Side note: shoutout to @87-Z28 on the suggestion to run a tighter setting on the swaybar. She noticed the reduced body roll in obstacles and loved it. Really missed the swaybar after the snap.
Found the video during the snap. Was actually trying to record the brake lines to see how much we needed to add for upcoming changes.
She is a good student! I am impressed.
So interesting how when the torsion is released how the axle moves significantly upward but the body does not move at all.... Kind of like you were trying to push through the rock rather than over it.... I guess I am stating the obvious when I say looks like something was hung up and pushing through... as opposed to sliding and lifting over. There was a lot of torque on that axle!
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