I just found out my front axle housing was empty...no shaft, no birfield, etc. Any ideas why this might have happened?
Love those PO mods.
Love those PO mods.
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Musta made steering interesting.
spdwaver
Formerly Kalifornistanian
This may have been caused by................
Good question, I am stumped. I would venture to guess they were removed by man.
Good question, I am stumped. I would venture to guess they were removed by man.
weight savings = better gas mileage!
spdwaver
Formerly Kalifornistanian
Ask the PO if he has by some odd coincidence some axles and birfs lying around.
Has it interfered with wheeling?
noooooooooIDave said:
.not at all
Wow
Havn't heard that one before
Havn't heard that one before
DallasFJ40 said:
Broke on the trail and yanked them out to keep from screwing everything up. Got back and sold it to you. Since you never asked if the front birfs and shafts were installed they didn't think is was important to tell you.
IDave said:
Okay how do birfs or lack of them effect steering?
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wait...wow...what about wheel bearings?...i woulda thought the inner axle seal wouldn't be doing spit at this point? wow me thinketh PO mod for sure!!
Trollhole said:Okay how do birfs or lack of them effect steering?
Squirting out gear oil each time you make a turn. Assuming there's some in there!
Then, of course, when you've washed all the grease out of the bearings....
maybe they used a cork? lol
Trollhole said:
Good point!
DallasFJ40 said:
Maybe they didn't know about the locking hubs and would just take the axles out when they didn't want the drag on the drivetrain and put them back in when they needed 4wd.
DallasFJ40 said:
How many other trucks did your PO own?
Do you have a drum brake front housing swapped in there also?
projektdotnet said:
What about them? The front axle is full floating and the wheel bearings seat on the spindle, not on the front axle shafts....
projektdotnet said:
Sure the seal is not doing anything, but then there is not anything to carry the gear oil out to the seal either....and unless the vehicle was operated at a very steep angled pitch to the driver or passenger side, the oil would stay in the housing and diff assembly.
While it has the potential to make a mess exists, the axles shafts themselves not being in the housing would not negatively effect steering.
Poser said:
Unless he corners like my daughter....
