hellbender86 Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 was running the hogback ridge trail in bland county and this happened to me. was in two wheel drive, little bit of wheelspin in the hole and when i came out the backside and hit solid ground, THUMP...crunch crunch bang...out pop the axles. the carrier split in half so the center pin dropped out, which in turn let the c clips fall out, and then out popped the axle shafts. the first idea of a fix was to cut a wedge of wood and drive it in there but that didn't work so I used mechanics wire to wire the c clips back to the axle shafts and then drove a piece of the broken carrier in between the side gears to keep everything pushed out. here is what that mess looked like...it allowed me to limp off the mountain using the front axle and get a trailer to get home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellbender86 Posted January 21, 2015 Author Share Posted January 21, 2015 this prompted this action which i have been working on this week... ordering u bolts and spring plates to get it put in probably next week sometime. then comes the drivetrain teardown and the np205/sm465 combo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellbender86 Posted January 30, 2015 Author Share Posted January 30, 2015 got my spring plates and ubolts from 4x4factory.com great guy to deal with. parts came quick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellbender86 Posted January 30, 2015 Author Share Posted January 30, 2015 and since i had that done, my brother and I addressed the welds on the shock mounts then shot a little paint Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YJeXtreme Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 Holy hell those were originally some cold welds! good call on redoing them... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellbender86 Posted February 3, 2015 Author Share Posted February 3, 2015 Oh yeah...they were garbage. Attempted to chisel them off but they were Just deep enough that it was going to try my patience Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeepfam Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 Wow! Those old welds looked like cottage freakin cheese! Yours look much better! Sad part is is that someone was proud of the original work. Unreal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crosswell Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 Wow! Those old welds looked like cottage freakin cheese! Yours look much better! Sad part is is that someone was proud of the original work. Unreal. I do agree with you. Very poor craftsmanship and very unsafe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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