smurfeild (2 Viewers)

[crushers]

a brand new surfeild was busted on the weekend.
Dan from 4wheel broke a smurfield on the same trail that he grenaded a birfield last year...
the poor boy just should stay as far away from Wayne's ridge as he can... i would say his truck is petrified of being rolled..
LOL!!
anyway, i was surprised that one broke that easily.
cheers

 

[tlcruiserman]

perhaps he has too much angle in his steering, I think it is anything over 47degrees and you will break a birfield.

 

[crushers]

the first time he broke the birfield he had too much throttle, this time it was just poor design as far as i am concerned...
cheers

 

[Greg_B]

Have you given Travis a call at 778-222-8738 to provide him feedback?

gb

 

[crushers]

nope, never knew who made the unit...
i will let Dan deal with it...
it seems that every other year someone comes up with the next great cure for birfield breakage just to have the same thing happen...
i was really hoping this time would be different, maybe he just got a bad unit, crap can happen...
cheers

 

[Greg_B]

This is the bling...http://www.toyotasuperaxles.com/

But for $65.00 cdn for a smurf...

gb

 

[wesintl]

Yeah.. I hear longs are the way to go.. Once I add a locker to the front and run low on stock birfs

 

[Greg_B]

Actually I was wrong. It's sometihng like $40.00 for a Smurf, with exchange.

Don't think there is much that will compare to a Long 27 or 30 spline chromo set...

Let's see...some of the new aftermarket hub studs, addtional dowels, aftermarket knuckle studs for the top, and some Long Chromo outers, and either Long or Pig inners.

gb

 

[crushers]

curious, with the smaller ball and the more material, does this reduce the turning radius of the longfeild?
cheers

 

[The Dude]

I am running smurfields on my HJ61. I have also broken a set. They where aftermarket birfields and not the OEM. I think you have to distinguish between a NEW birf that was smurf'd vs a used OEM or aftermarket.

My "in very good shape" OEM birfs that where smurf'd are holding up 100 times better then the aftermarket units that I broke.

I think for most running a 35 or under, the smurf is a very good and economical option.

 

[woody]

Let's see...some of the new aftermarket hub studs, aftermarket knuckle studs for the top, some Long Chromo outers, and Pig inners....and cryo'd knuckles

hey, that sounds like a rockin setup...I believe I'll do that...

 

[Greg_B]

re: and cryo'd knuckles...

Interesting. Was this discussed on Mud or Pirates?

gb

 

[beanz2]

Pirates, mainly in the General Tech or Toy truck section. Bobby Long and CJ7Dean can do cryo's.

Dave

 

[woody]

Interesting. Was this discussed on Mud or Pirates?

gb

https://forum.ih8mud.com/showthread.php?t=38172

Installing them tomorrow, visibly they look like any other knuckle....Dean and I both agreed that "it can't hurt"....$40 per knuckle to cryo, plus shipping round trip.

I also did the ARP studs from Front Range...IMO, it takes the stock knuckle about as far as ya can....next step will be Marlin's new 6-stud knuckle castings...

got a couple free cryo'd razors in the box too, C's legs have never been so smoooooooth

 

[dieselcruiserhead]

I have beat the snot out of my smurfs and they have held up fine. Going to do it some more this week in Moab. If you breaks I'll post up. Finallly locked up front as of a couple days ago...! Andre