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arsoul
11-25-2001, 11:58 PM
http://home.earthlink.net/~mattsara/isabel/PB251196.jpg
The breather tube should be coming out of the top of the axle shaft.

http://home.earthlink.net/~mattsara/isabel/PB251191.jpg

This is what happens when you hit the gas when you shouldn't!
All at the same time, I blew my front right axle stub shaft and UJoint, and the spring perches in the rear busted, causing the axle to pivot up, gernading my rear driveshaft and UJoint.
The rear shocks hit the antisway bar mounts, keeping the axle from turning anymore. Lets just say they are no longer new.
So, I should have it back on the road in 10 days or so, but...I want something stronger, so how's a leaf sprung dana60 up front and a 3/4ton driveshaft/UJoints leading to my 8.8 sound?

tdavis
11-26-2001, 01:42 PM
Save your money, just get better spring perches for the rear, and a anti-wrap bar.

Put it in the front end, tear off that d35 crap, and put a d44 solid axle up front.

arsoul
11-26-2001, 10:07 PM
Sorry, I wasn't clear at all. I'm thinking of putting the dana60 up front. im going to keep the 8.8.

arsoul
11-27-2001, 07:57 PM
I found out why that particular shaft end broke. On one side of the yoke there is rust, and on the other side of the break no rust has formed yet. I was driving on a previously fractured axle shaft!