Wheely king axle strength

[kurt]

Just wondering what your opinion is as far as axle strength and the common weakpoints.

I am running a 45T integy with a 15T pinion and pede tranny with a 90T spur. I am then running moab xl's on axial locks.
About a week after running the moabs, my axles starting popping. Come to find out, i had quite a bit of play in my pinion and it was skipping the ring gear. The teeth were actually starting to round on the ring gear. I ordered the hardened gears and shimmed it correctly using white grease to check my mesh. I haven't had any problems since and i am thinking i am ok. I have been at WOT going up a ledge with the front bouncing and jerking and jarring with no other breakage. I have seen the out drives break but if that ever happens, i'll just throw in the cvd's. Is there anything else i should be concerned about? I am going to stay with open diffs since i don't compete and i like my turning radius. For those of you in the 1:1 side of this, what would you compare it to?

D35? D44? D60?

 

[Cslax06]

This would be like throwing Iroks on a stocker.

You need to beef up;-)

 

[kurt]

i ran iroks on my 44/9 combo.


so is this like iroks on a D35?

is there anything i can do to the wk axles or should i just invest in a stronger axle. I don't want to super 35 it.

 

[phx123]

Hey Kurt.. I broke an axle with the stock wk tires.. And I know you are harder on your rigs than I am haha . Get some cvd's from RCP . Super beefy and peace of mine .

 

[kurt]

i feel honored. Your first post is in response to my thread. woot



what were you doing when it broke? like i said, i have been in the same scenario with my truck that i have seen break 1:1 axles and it comes through every time. I think the worst was the whole ledge slamming deal i talked about before. It was bouncing high enough for the wheels to get to full speed and then i watched as they just slammed back down onto the cement.

 

[Calderwood]

With shimmed gears and CVDs they are D60 strong.

 

[kurt]

now thats what i wanted to hear. i have properly shimmed hardened gears and i'll grab cvd's here shortly.

somebody say D70?

 

[floogldood]

Where to get the small 5x7 mm shims? for the pinion.

 

[kurt]

i used these
http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/WTI0001P?&I=LXTB43

 

[JavelinSST390]

Thanks! I've been trying to find out where I could ge those shims. My WK 4x4 came with a LOT of slop in the pinions and no shims to fix it with.