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02-14-2006, 06:05 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Lindon
Posts: 129
|  Broken Rear Axle
Well I broke my rear axle on Saturday. I search around and before I took it apart it seemed like the pin had sheared off. When I finally got around to taking it apart I realized it was much worse. I had shattered the translucent coupler between the axle and the planetary. I haven't seen anyone else break this piece. I fixed it by grinding down a t14 socket to fit into a pice of 1/2" copper I had lying around. The socket had a hole in it already so I used that hole as kindof a set screw hole. Then on the other side I punched out the old axle pin and replaced it with a longer pin to go through both the axle and the piece of copper. It seemed to fix it so far, only drove it around the house though.
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02-14-2006, 06:11 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Hardin, KY
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lots of people have broke those, Nylint knows about the breakages too because in the newer chassis they are metal....
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02-14-2006, 07:01 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: PNW
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yup! Thats the first peice I broke... Did you shatter yours? Or Just strip or wollow out the inside? Every one of broke, or seen broke just wollowed out the inside. When that happens I just JB Weld or Epoxy putty the entire thing together, holds up just fine.
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02-16-2006, 08:33 AM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Hamilton, On, Canada
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i have shattered the plastic too. all my attempts at replaceing the first pin failed untill i used a cotter pin and then shattered the plastic. i just got an upgraded chasis  |
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