Brush Pull in Neilsville, WI video, more carnage
 

Went to a brush pull/fair pull Friday night... Results didn't turn out too well.
Looks like I'm finding most of the weak points, though :o [yuk]

http://thumbs.vidiac.com/557726c7-3a...1d00b46d3c.jpgClick here to see Video

Dana 70 SRW unbroken axle shafts. (I run a Dana 80 DRW axle)
http://www.puredieselpower.com/pics/axle/axles.jpg
http://www.puredieselpower.com/pics/axle/axles2.jpg
Random chunks...
http://www.puredieselpower.com/pics/...ndompieces.jpg
Is my detroit unusable?
http://www.puredieselpower.com/pics/axle/detroit.jpg

Do you think I could clean up the edges of that detroit and put a new bearing on it or is it totally shot?

At this rate I'll never make it to Scheids.. at least in the truck!

[laugh] [laugh] [laugh] Not really funny, but at least you're optimistic. :)

Wow that launch was a little rough. :o

Bobcat:


You are my new hero----unbelieveable!!!!! Besides, the man of steel has nothing on you now! [laugh] [laugh]

**** boy you could tear up a anvil with a feather. you need more springs in the rear or you have to start off a lot easier. and see if you can block the suspension.

A blocked rear is the only way you will get away with a launch like that.

Yep, gotta get that fixed. I am running Timbrens right now and they must cause some of the hop.

I hope you get it back together before Scheids, are you gona replace those axles with hardened axles.

I took the ring gear out and cut the axles off and bolted them back in.. Got it up and running in front wheel drive.. Truck does some MEAN front wheel drive burnouts at 30PSI of boost [coffee] J/K :)

Nice...Redneck engineering at it's finest. Do what you have to do to keep 'em moving!!!

So what are you going to replace them with?
Chris

looks like it time to get ahold of haisley for some new axles. that bearing looks like it was never properly packed with grease. that was a rough launch.

Somewhere deep down inside I don't doubt that you were in Plover doin front wheel burnouts.

Hope you get her back together. Come out of the hole sssssssssslllllllllllllllllloooooooooooooooowwwwww wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

I gotta agree w/ halerazor about that bearing too. I would ask somebody about that maybe.

Look everybody its Captain Obvious himself! Travis is the guy yelling "You Broke Garrett, you broke [coffee] " in the video.
[laugh]

Yes, I think I'll come out of the hole SLOW when not hanging weights.

since the bearings live in a oil bath, i figure there is no reason for them to have grease on them. and i would try to salvage the detroit, just debur it on the out side and take it apart to double check the inside.

That's what was thinking!!

Captain Obvious drove his truck to work today. Powered by ther rear wheels. J/K ya Garrett hope ya get her fixed. Did ya salvage the Detroit? Hope so. Talk at ya later.

I picked up another Detroit locker and a set of Yukon axles.. supposed to be 30% stronger than stock.
Its all I can do right now.

Now that's funny right there, I don't care who you are.

Sorry to see the carnage Bobcat, that was some wicked bounce and one heck of a hole shot, go easy on her...

lets see, you had motor issues (cylinder walls) a broken tranny, then transfer case and drive shafts, now axles...just think, all you have left is the front hubs, pinion and carrier to upgrade and you should be about bullet proof all the way thru.

although i hope you dont break all that. i have no room to talk...i still havent pulled the head off my truck to get ringed and studded

You'll be allright. Just be a little easier on her. C-ya.

Just an update:
Here is a picture of one of the new shafts, after 3 hooks with NO hopping..

http://www.puredieselpower.com/pics/...ftrearaxle.jpg

That's what they call "preload", it'll be ok. [coffee]

Never take them out and look at them before they break!!!

Why NOT? Last time I did that it cost me a detroit locker! $$$

Got 2 new ones on the way though.

LOL I'm just ribbin ya. Hey, if the made a stout enough rear end with a clear housing I'd buy it. So you lost the locker? That stinks. Are those the dually axles you just put in? You getting another set or stepping up to heavy ones and spools?

Yep, these are axles out of the dually rearend.

I already put a new detroit locker in as I like the streetability of them.

You might want to try the haisley roll and block the suspension or I have had good luck with airbags.

Yeah the Timbrens are definately a source of Hoppage.

I have had NO issues whatsoever with hopping when I hang weights off the front, though.

I have never heard it called that but I have heard it described a few times. [laugh]

ya you think the truck is running like crap or the driver doesnt know how to drive then about the 75' mark you change your mind in a hurry. [laugh]

Garrett,
I never hopped with my Timbrens...I wonder why? Of course they are on reserve duty now. Blocks baby!! [laugh]

i am afriad to pull out my axles and look

No kiddin' Joe. Mine have to be hurtin' by now! [duhhh]