So after 3 years and countless hardcore wheeling trips on 39" tires my RCV both let go at the same time & both axles broke at the same place just inside the cage
The thing is that I was not even on a obstacle, there was no bouncing,hopping,shock load, nothing like that.
Just diff hung on the rear axle housing. Really this is where I was rear diff was hung up on the rocks in the middle of the picture & trail, my fronts were where the smaller rocks are filling the hole in the trail.
It is the first time in 8 years of ownership that I had a major brake on the trail.
This leaves me wondering why they both let go like that, was it fatigue ? 8 years of wheeling with 35s then 37s and now 39s
Are the 39s just to much for that axle ?
Defect in the axles ?
I always felt The 8" third would let go before the RCV
Don't worry about it, just put the new one's in and go wheeling
I did upgrade to the 300M axles 30 spline and 28MM instead of 26MM and 26 spline.
And no I have not been working on it Life has been getting in the way
The thing is that I was not even on a obstacle, there was no bouncing,hopping,shock load, nothing like that.
Just diff hung on the rear axle housing. Really this is where I was rear diff was hung up on the rocks in the middle of the picture & trail, my fronts were where the smaller rocks are filling the hole in the trail.
It is the first time in 8 years of ownership that I had a major brake on the trail.
This leaves me wondering why they both let go like that, was it fatigue ? 8 years of wheeling with 35s then 37s and now 39s
Are the 39s just to much for that axle ?
Defect in the axles ?
I always felt The 8" third would let go before the RCV
Don't worry about it, just put the new one's in and go wheeling
I did upgrade to the 300M axles 30 spline and 28MM instead of 26MM and 26 spline.
And no I have not been working on it Life has been getting in the way