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

[Jeep Driver]

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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[ftpiercecracker1]

What the F is sticking out the bottom!?  :???: 

[Incommando]

Homemade drain plug???  :brows:

[yxmj]

The center pin the spiders ride on

[airspeed]

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

[Strokermjcomanche]

Are the axles equal length ? Never had them out of my 8.25 . Just grab a drivers side if there equal and in good shape .

[Jeep Driver]

Are the axles equal length ? Never had them out of my 8.25 . Just grab a drivers side if there equal and in good shape .

That's what I did, they are both the same.

[cbreiter]

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.

[Incommando]

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.

[cbreiter]

Lol, it was a hot rod mustang with a 454 in it. Basicly was done up as cheap as the guy could do it.

[Thunderbear]

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. 

[Incommando]

 

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?

[Thunderbear]

 

 

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.