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Hey all...Im in need to TWO long side 60 series rears and ONE short.Had a bit of a mis hap on the trail this past weekend which leaves me OWING a very gracious individual and his wife a replacement long side rear.Man...Im really starting to get into DEBT with this Karma thing. More people need to break so I can help.If anyone has a set of rear axels they would like to sell, please post up here or PM me!K
 
chicago said:
Hey all...Im in need to TWO long side 60 series rears and ONE short.Had a bit of a mis hap on the trail this past weekend which leaves me OWING a very gracious individual and his wife a replacement long side rear.Man...Im really starting to get into DEBT with this Karma thing. More people need to break so I can help.If anyone has a set of rear axels they would like to sell, please post up here or PM me!K
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Keith,

Airport Auto Wrecking has that 60, that they have started parting out. I was there on Monday, but I didn't look under it to see what was left or touched. I am pretty sure they won't be cheap, but it does give you an option.

Also, you might want to try Dave's Offroad over the hill (Pirate under the Vendor section).

Good luck.

Jack
 
Airport wants something like 1100 for both axles with everything on them including springs. I can't afford them right now, otherwise they would be here already.
 
chicago said:
Hey all...Im in need to TWO long side 60 series rears and ONE short.Had a bit of a mis hap on the trail this past weekend which leaves me OWING a very gracious individual and his wife a replacement long side rear.Man...Im really starting to get into DEBT with this Karma thing. More people need to break so I can help.If anyone has a set of rear axels they would like to sell, please post up here or PM me!K
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There may be somebody in Fallon you could get in touch with.......

Sorry to hear about the break man.
 
The local cruiser parts souce in Fallon, Im hoping will see this and tell me ya or nay.:D I suspect though that they are on different rigs by this time.
Cruiserparts. net has em for a reasonable price. 65 for the long side, 40 for the short.
Im gonna check into Poly's though.

Thanks,

K
 
slvrbck said:
I'm heading over to his house this morning to grab a part for my bro-in-laws 40, I'll look and see if he has a rear around there and give him a call tonight for ya bud.
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Thanks Chris!
Im not too saavy with the text biz, so dont be mad that I didnt reply.

K
 
rusty_tlc said:
I just checked the price on Poly's :eek:
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YAP!
Worth it if they hold up though!
As mentioned...that could have been a LOT WORSE and potentially fatal for me or someone else if I were elsewhere. When that thing let loose, there were NO indications that anything was wrong. That is what freaked me out about the whole thing.

K
 
rusty_tlc said:
I just checked the price on Poly's :eek:
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$450 for 2 seems like a pretty good deal. If it avoids 1 trail breakage in the life time of the axle, it's well worth it. Figure a long side shaft is already going to cost $100 and the short side $50, you're almost 1/3 of the way there with used OEM.

Now if you find a source of cheap OEM ones say for $50 each and can buy4 or so of them, it might be worth it just to run OEM and replace when they break.

Kieth-I would also get the guts of a normal differential and carry that with you. Side gears, pinion gears and a spacer block would take up very little room and you slam it in fast in the event of another break like this one.

Cruiseroutfitters used to have good prices on used axle shafts. Might be worth a call to Kurt.
 
Cruiserdrew said:
$450 for 2 seems like a pretty good deal. If it avoids 1 trail breakage in the life time of the axle, it's well worth it. Figure a long side shaft is already going to cost $100 and the short side $50, you're almost 1/3 of the way there with used OEM.

Now if you find a source of cheap OEM ones say for $50 each and can buy4 or so of them, it might be worth it just to run OEM and replace when they break.

Kieth-I would also get the guts of a normal differential and carry that with you. Side gears, pinion gears and a spacer block would take up very little room and you slam it in fast in the event of another break like this one.

Cruiseroutfitters used to have good prices on used axle shafts. Might be worth a call to Kurt.
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Yeah your probably right on the cost.

Didn't you have some reservations about setting up a diff on the trail? As far as trail fixes go it seems like once you know what you are doing the lockrite shouldn't be that bad. I couldn't see what was going on and didn't want to slow things down by sticking my head in, but it seemed most of the time was spent noodling out what to do rather than actually doing it. I'd definitely get a spare set of those springs and pins though, they look like the kind of things that could get lost real easy.
 
Cruiserdrew said:
$450 for 2 seems like a pretty good deal. If it avoids 1 trail breakage in the life time of the axle, it's well worth it. Figure a long side shaft is already going to cost $100 and the short side $50, you're almost 1/3 of the way there with used OEM.

Now if you find a source of cheap OEM ones say for $50 each and can buy4 or so of them, it might be worth it just to run OEM and replace when they break.

Kieth-I would also get the guts of a normal differential and carry that with you. Side gears, pinion gears and a spacer block would take up very little room and you slam it in fast in the event of another break like this one.

Cruiseroutfitters used to have good prices on used axle shafts. Might be worth a call to Kurt.
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Right!
I didnt think of Kurt...I checked cruiserparts...not too bad. If I dont hear anything local, Ill probably just get it from them, but Ill check Kurt out too.

K
 
DesertLake said:
Details?
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The short story...
Rusty Dan and I met up with the Norcal wagons crew for their annual Wentworth Springs run on the Rubicon.
AWSOME day, AWESOME location, AWESOME wheelin and AWESOME people.
Get off the trail, back on paved road heading back to camp...
I had a passenger (Orion) with me who was on his first wheeling trip. I was just commenting on how great of a day it was (here was my mistake) and how everyone got through and no one broke...NOT 5 seconds later, the DS rear axel gave way. Andy screams at me on the 2M, I manage to get the rig to stop on the side of the road and my rear assy. is out a foot and a half from where it was supposed to be. F**K!
Everyone pulled together, got a call to Brett who had a spare axel and was nice enough to drive it up from Sac. last minute. We left the rig on the side of the road, and Andy, Dan and I went back to fix it the following AM.

Again...Lucked out in SOOOOO many ways.
It was honestly, one of the BEST days I had wheeling EVER despite the break. It was PERFECT overall.:bounce::bounce2:

K
 
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I have seen that happen once, I was right behind a bronco or something similar coming out of a parking lot on a slick road in a rainstorm. The axle slid all the way out and off before the kid understood what had happened. I still don't understand why it happened.

What happens to your brake cylinders when the drum is already off the shoes and you have to stop?
 
DesertLake said:
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I have seen that happen once, I was right behind a bronco or something similar coming out of a parking lot on a slick road in a rainstorm. The axle slid all the way out and off before the kid understood what had happened. I still don't understand why it happened.

What happens to your brake cylinders when the drum is already off the shoes and you have to stop?
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Well, in this case the retention springs did a pretty good job of pulling them back in. I did have to cinch in the star doo dad a bit to get the drums back on though.

Like I said, I lucked out in SOOOOOO many ways.

K
 
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