Another take on high clearance axles..

[guest]

Well I got inspired by cspyy to hack and reshape my clod axles, I've had these axles for about ten years and for about 5 of those they've been on my crawler, so it was kinda hard for me to take the dremel to um'. But I soon got over that and started cutting away.

I didn't want to completely bond the cases together because I like to grease the gears often, my plan was to try to get rid of as much bulk as I could.

It took some shaping and trimming but seems to be good, I still need to stitch the pieces together and fill in some of the gaps, I also want to shave off as much material as I can off the bottom to get some more clearance.............And of course do it all over again for the other axle

Here are a few pics so far.







Thanks for looking.

[cspyy]

wow you went up past the bottom axle tube mount! hope that works out


btw, my cases arent bonded together, they come apart just like stock

way to hack em up

[mickrcarver]

hope that stays strong

[guest]

Originally Posted by cspyy

wow you went up past the bottom axle tube mount! hope that works out


btw, my cases arent bonded together, they come apart just like stock

way to hack em up

Thanks, I must have over looked your design. my mistake.

hope that stays strong

I hope it holds up too....I guess theres only one way to find out....

[grover]

It will be fine for awhile... in '06 I ran a 2.2 to the state championship with no bottom on the case at all (cut flush with the bottom of the axle tube). I did put a lexan bottom on (in a similar shape that you employed) when I took it to nationals (so they wouldn't complain about it being six wheel drive) that truck did well finishing 3rd in the nation... never broke a gear or a case cut like this (on a 2.2).

Chad-

[guest]

Originally Posted by grover

It will be fine for awhile... in '06 I ran a 2.2 to the state championship with no bottom on the case at all (cut flush with the bottom of the axle tube). I did put a lexan bottom on (in a similar shape that you employed) when I took it to nationals (so they wouldn't complain about it being six wheel drive) that truck did well finishing 3rd in the nation... never broke a gear or a case cut like this (on a 2.2).

Chad-

3rd in the nation..damn!!, I'll be using these for a 2.2 setup. Do you have any pic's of your axle or even a pic of your rig?

Thanks...