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05-05-2007, 02:01 PM | #41 |
MODERHATER™ Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Colorado
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Just wondering, wouldn't it be a good idea to make the stubs a bigger diameter? It looks as though they are still 4mm? I break the stock ones like mad, thats why I ask....
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05-05-2007, 02:05 PM | #42 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Finland
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Oooh, really nice looking stuff!
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05-05-2007, 02:45 PM | #43 | |
Rock Crawler Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Longmont, CO
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Plus I gotta think my steel is better... They are the same size as my super. That thing is heavy and taken some tumbles. never broken | |
05-05-2007, 02:49 PM | #44 |
MODERHATER™ Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Colorado
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Nice!! Will these be ready for the comp?
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05-06-2007, 04:20 PM | #45 |
Rock Crawler Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Longmont, CO
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More progress today: got all the outer stuff made and assembled onto the axle: Time to tackle the actual axle. Need some balls for the dog bones. Thought about makeing them from solid. Then you'd have to split the axle to get the bearings on. No good. In the end I made them like my other axles, slip on a ball and pin it with the dog bone pin, then hold the pin in with a setscrew. I needed to drill a hole in some 3/8" balls... On El Capitan I ordered some SS balls that were harder than hell, ruined two bits trying to drill them and gave up and ordered brass balls (no chuckling allowed!). They are starting to wear a bit so I wanted to try the SS balls again. What I did this time is aneal them so they weren't harder than the back of gods head: I heated them up with a torch till they glowed bright red. With steel a good indicator is to heat them till a magnet won't stick to them any more but these being SS a magnet never would stick to them. So instead I went with the looks about right method for heating. I heated them and a big chunk of metal below them so when they cooled they would tend to cool slowly with the big chunk. I also gradually removed the flame so they'd cool slow. They drilled pretty easy after this: |
05-06-2007, 04:24 PM | #46 |
Rock Crawler Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Longmont, CO
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When you machine parts alot of time you have to make parts to make parts... Here's a simple jig I made to cut the burr off the balls: The shaft is tapered slightly so the ball would fit on snug and true. I could then run a countersink up to the end and de-burr after drilling. No real way to hold onto the thing otherwise. I also used the fixture to mill the cross pin hole for the dogbone. |
05-06-2007, 04:28 PM | #47 |
Rock Crawler Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Longmont, CO
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Getting close to finished now. Time for some size comparisons: New outer stub, stock outer stub: New inner axle/ stock outer axle: If these break, I ain't hiking down the canyon to retrieve the rest of the rig! |
05-06-2007, 04:32 PM | #48 |
2006 2.2 National Champ Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Big Bear Lake
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Damn!! Those Dana 60 outers? |
05-06-2007, 04:34 PM | #49 |
Rock Crawler Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Salt Lake
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Holy crap!
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05-06-2007, 04:42 PM | #50 |
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05-06-2007, 05:15 PM | #51 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Here
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Oh, I need a set of those bad boyz. Nice work Ace... |
05-06-2007, 05:28 PM | #52 |
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05-06-2007, 07:33 PM | #53 |
Pebble Pounder Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: High Point
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your next problem to fix is the weak gears....maby high carbon steel????
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05-06-2007, 07:57 PM | #54 |
Pebble Pounder Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Rye Brook, NY
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very nice work. so...is this even considered a TLT axle anymore... |
05-06-2007, 09:13 PM | #55 |
Dirt Addict Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Stumblin' thru the parking lot of an invisible 7-Eleven
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Very impressive....those look awesome. Jay |
05-07-2007, 10:37 PM | #56 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Formula Off-Roading some hill
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this makes me miss my high school machine shop class . sweet work . dana 60 ? more like rockwells. |
05-07-2007, 11:15 PM | #57 |
RCC Addict Join Date: May 2006 Location: Roseville
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Wow, Those axles are almost as thick as my wifes Sentra...
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05-08-2007, 07:01 AM | #58 |
TEAM RCC Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: THE ALIEN WORKSHOP
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Those are looking nice! I want some 35 spline BEEF! Last edited by CRF450R; 05-08-2007 at 07:04 AM. |
05-08-2007, 03:07 PM | #59 |
Rock Stacker Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: East Helena
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So when are these going to be on the market,cause i want a set |
05-09-2007, 06:44 PM | #60 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Columbia Gorge
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You sir... have a big shaft |
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