whitetrash96
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A little while back I was doing some light snow-wheeling and hammered the gas and bang, bang, bang, you get the picture. I broke the driver side shaft on my d35, after getting out of the truck and confirming my suspicions I unlocked the hubs threw it in 2 wheel and limped it back to the cabin we were camping in.
I had spare shafts at home but since I hadn't ever broken any shafts/u-joints I didn't carry them with me.
Once at home I got ambitious picked up some new spicers swapped them into my new 'old' shafts and tried to put them in. The problem was that the ears were torn wide open and would not pass thru the knuckle to let me replace them, some time with a bfh and die grinder allowed it out however.
Okay now to my question, when guys are snapping axles is it better to hammer on it and totally grenade the shafts or baby and get off the gas like I did?
I had spare shafts at home but since I hadn't ever broken any shafts/u-joints I didn't carry them with me.
Once at home I got ambitious picked up some new spicers swapped them into my new 'old' shafts and tried to put them in. The problem was that the ears were torn wide open and would not pass thru the knuckle to let me replace them, some time with a bfh and die grinder allowed it out however.
Okay now to my question, when guys are snapping axles is it better to hammer on it and totally grenade the shafts or baby and get off the gas like I did?