welding the front diff

[4x4junkie]

It's true, RBVs have wonderful turning circles, although I like being able to thread my BII right in between all the rocks & trees that force Jeeps to have to 3-point all their turns

 

[86ford]

A D28 will not last 10 minutes welded.

wrong.

i wheeled with a guy who has a 86? 4cyl short bed that is welded front and rear. he BEATS THE PISS out of it and is yet to bust a shaft because its so incredibly under powered with stock gearing and 33s. he has ran it on 3 different trips that i know of since he purchased it without incident. if you actually care about your rig, dont weld it, if its a trail beater weld away! but do carry spare shafts dont be "that guy".

86

 

[raiper]

depends on driver i guess and what not. ive never broken a shaft in my 35 but plenty of hubs and ball joints

 

[Bent Bolt]

It's true, RBVs have wonderful turning circles, although I like being able to thread my BII right in between all the rocks & trees that force Jeeps to have to 3-point all their turns

It never dawned on me until now but you're right. Even with my extended cab, I can follow the jeeps just fine and not do a 3 point turn nearly as often as one might think. Of course it helps that I'm not concerned with a bit of body damage.

 

[86ford]

depends on driver i guess and what not. ive never broken a shaft in my 35 but plenty of hubs and ball joints

he hasent broken anything to my knowing. i am completely serious when i say he revs that thing up like a drag car bouncing off the rev limiter before he dumps the clutch for hill climbs.

86

 

[Evan]

depends on driver i guess and what not. ive never broken a shaft in my 35 but plenty of hubs and ball joints

Hubs I understand, but balljoints? Are you jumping the truck?

 

[raiper]

jump? jump my truck? nah thats an understatement i launch it. i kinda do thew whole pre-runner thing with it fast and hard. i had to for a while only had 2WD so i hit everything twice as hard, twice as fast. pretty bad when shop cant get my balljoints out to replace them so i have to grab a used axle and swap it out.

 

[raiper]

im hopin the 44 fares better. Locked front or rear they turn great btw. locked rear does some bitchin donuts and u turns

 

[built2bashranger]

thanks for the info i think ill weld it after i fix the beast damn slaves inside the trans. couses problems when it springs a leak

 

[Will]

Don't weld a front axle.

First, most of your weight is on the front. Know how a differential works? The same torque goes to each tire. That's hard to understand. If a front tire is slipping, the other front tire gets no torque delivered to it--the slipping tire spins. It's a four-wheel-drive though. With 60% of the weight on the front, a front tire is not all that likely to slip. Normally, the front is level, the rear axle is doing most of the travel and a rear will slip first. I have lockers on both ends of my truck. I did the rear first and it made a huge difference. I did the front later and barely noticed it.

You have an axle with joints weaker than your great aunts hip. It's stupid to weld it. In my ten years on here I would say a newly welded axle lasted less than a month before the owner decided to move on to other options.

Wheeling is about having fun. Don't set yourself up as a suicide D28 bomber.

And 90% of D35 wreckers don't have their shit set up right. I spent a weekend standing on my throttle with a 4,0 and 35s and never hurt the locked D35. I've had a D35 since 2002 with a 4.0 and a locker and 31s and I'm not nice to it. I had one failure and it was a yoke clearance issue and another was a maintenance issue. I could have adopted the D35 is shit attitide and dumped it. I have enough money to put in Rockwells if I want. But I didn't. If you dont have 35s and a V8 and you are busting things, you aren't setting your axle up right.

 

[built2bashranger]

i got the 2.9 v6 and 31s i have broke a few axles but they all involved my moter cross track or leaving the top of a hill climb to fast i have 2 thirds so ill play around and see what i want. if it comes down to it ill throw in the open third just wanted to see what i was getting my self in to cus i know how much i throw tha this poor rig

 

[Hahnsb2]

I think you're wasting your time with the D28, you'll break it in no time and just waste time swapping pigs and axles.