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Riddle Me This.......and When Difs Go Bad........


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I'm putting together a 8.25 and I noticed that the passenger axle was worn, too worn to reinstall.

I'm off to the PnP and I pull  two other axles apart, both had bad passenger side axles, worn at the bearing.

 

3 for 3....you guys have any idea why that might be?

 

 

 

And for kicks.....

 

The passenger side axle kinda just slid out when I touched it, looked OK but I just left it lie there.

 

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You will have to be careful if you do a lot of spinning. My buddy builds drag cars, and once had a 8.8 he built with two ds win star axels. He never felt safe to use slicks on it because axels tend to get twisted a certain way from use. But concidering that you probably aren't hooking 400 hp up to them, it will probably be fine.

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400 HP drag car? How...cute.  :banana:

Most drag race sanctioning bodies require that you use c-clip eliminators based on speed or the use of slicks. 8.8's and other c-clip axles fail regularly in that arena. But those stresses are different than on a 'wheeler. Rear discs also add in retaining an axle should a shaft break.

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  • 1 month later...

 

 

Can you imagine the noise that made when it let go!!

 

Sadly, I don't have to imagine. That's the reason I don't have an MJ anymore. 

 

I take it needed a lot more than an axle assembly to fix?

 

Could have got by with an axle swap, but then the 2.5 was producing a lot of blowby, so a 4.0 swap would have been in order. Way too much for what was supposed to be a 'round town DD. Still have the TJ and now a new Patriot (wife) so we're still in the Jeep Crew. I just replaced the MJ with a first gen ZR2, like I used to have before the TJ.

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