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I did not. Good thing is I have another housing.
Builds Reconstruction after rollover - building The Champ 2.
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I figured the mass of the housing and differential plus the oil would absorb the heat as I applied it slowly.
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While I had the front axle housing hanging from the tractor loader with pinion toward the ground so I could squirt some paint on the third member gear oil showed itself coming through a tiny crack at the weld on the arm bracket to housing rear passenger side. Compressed air through the vent tube confirmed the location and length of the crack. Cleaned it and ran a couple passes of molten metal.
Did you weld the driver's side prophylactically?
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About three years ago the drivers side bracket sheared completely in two pieces so that side was addressed then. I think this crack developed some years ago because I did a reinforcement job on both brackets when the drivers side broke. It was accidentally that I discovered todays crack.
These crack are showing up more and more and why I was considering a 3 link.
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My first year here on Mud a poster (can’t remember who or where from) stated that these Toyota housing literally crack to pieces and can “shatter” . Back then I disagreed, ten years later I’m thinking he may have known something we will soon learn.
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A lot of financial resources are going into this build, turbo kit inbound, and the third member on this front axle was brand new not two months before I flopped the rig it was in bending the A-pillar in May of 23 not to mention the rebuilt ARB and RCV shafts so I’ll go ahead with this stock axle housing for now but I think that a front axle with more beef to it will be on the to do list once this rig is in action.
It’s not a buggy, the front axle will be fine.
I don’t have to tell you what mine has be through and with 39s
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Buggy status doesn’t really have anything to do with it. The front axle has taken a lot of hard hits in the 11 years I’ve owned it. I’ve broken one birf, ripped in half the drivers side arm bracket, destroyed the ring and pinion, and now this mysterious crack find. It’s only a matter of time.
I don't believe it's a real issue but I might just start pushing this conspiracy.
If the hive mind PM paranoia grows strong enough for people to start fixing their housing before they "shatter", maybe it'll spawn a rich aftermarket for custom housings and 3 link kits.
Your build is coming along nicely
If the hive mind PM paranoia grows strong enough for people to start fixing their housing before they "shatter", maybe it'll spawn a rich aftermarket for custom housings and 3 link kits.
Your build is coming along nicely
For most in the hive IMO the stock front axle is more than sufficient !I don't believe it's a real issue but I might just start pushing this conspiracy.
If the hive mind PM paranoia grows strong enough for people to start fixing their housing before they "shatter", maybe it'll spawn a rich aftermarket for custom housings and 3 link kits.
Your build is coming along nicely
I’m sure there are others but Steve & myself are an exception.
I also have broken the ring & pinion two RCV shafts at the same time & started to rip the front control arm mount off the housing
Still I think it has held up incredibly well for what I put it through !!
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Today is a boring ignition switch install but the records gotta be kept.
And this came the other day. I finally got a minute to unbox it. Turbo install will have to wait. Thanks @Cruisers and Co
And this came the other day. I finally got a minute to unbox it. Turbo install will have to wait. Thanks @Cruisers and Co
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Coming along nicely or painfully slow? It’s easy to buy stuff and pile it up on a shelf, but it’s another thing to put that stuff into action. Patience must become my forte.I don't believe it's a real issue but I might just start pushing this conspiracy.
If the hive mind PM paranoia grows strong enough for people to start fixing their housing before they "shatter", maybe it'll spawn a rich aftermarket for custom housings and 3 link kits.
Your build is coming along nicely
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I respect Toyota gear myself and I think my thread expresses that. With his turbo expenditure my gall has already chilled. Rock crawling doesn’t require HP high speed over landing does. I like over landing. There I said it! The idea of seeing miles of landscape in one day, starting off low and ending up high camping in the snow and frying bacon at 12k feet so high I can smell jet exhaust is gripping.For most in the hive IMO the stock front axle is more than sufficient !
I’m sure there are others but Steve & myself are an exception.
I also have broken the ring & pinion two RCV shafts at the same time & started to rip the front control arm mount off the housing
Still I think it has held up incredibly well for what I put it through !!
Weld more metal to your front axle housing and 3 link it so I can copy it already……
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Front axle hard pointed with the new style 3.5” VT coils I bought from @AgentOrange quit some time ago. I had them and my trusty rear Slee 4” heavy progressive springs powder coated black. These bad boys are tall! Was 29” center of hub to fender lip with the 1” spacers I ran with the old tapered VT springs since 2017 so I took them out and put a ten MM packer in just to have an isolator. Of course the front end is light right now so that will come down a bit more once the rest of the body and the bumper and winch are installed. Now on to the rear axle swap.
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12mm socket MIA!
