Rockwells make your sac swell!

Eddyj · Mar 20, 2015

It's tacked into place and is not rubbing. I would have went ahead and welded it but when I seen those relief cuts offset the other way in the diff it just had me second guessing myself.

fordcontraption01 · Mar 20, 2015

It will be fine weld it up. I thought you were doing the old home brew weld a small piece on what happened to that?

Eddyj · Mar 20, 2015

The official word from BTF was if it don't hit weld it up.
The home made one was on the rear non-steer. I didn't want to drop extra cash on a non-steer axle. I hope to add rear steer shortly.

1tonyj · Mar 22, 2015

Ok got a newb question. This is my axle seal retainer correct? I'm getting ready for 2" shafts. There are no seals left in my axle so before I started to beat on these I just wanted to make sure it was supposed to come out.

patooyee · Mar 22, 2015

Yes, it comes out. Sometimes you have to take the entire axle apart and stick a bar through from the other side to pound it out. The 2" kit will come with new ones.

1tonyj · Mar 22, 2015

patooyee said:
Yes, it comes out. Sometimes you have to take the entire axle apart and stick a bar through from the other side to pound it out. The 2" kit will come with new ones.

Thxs JJ ! ....just wanted to make sure.

patooyee · Mar 22, 2015

1tonyj said:
Thxs JJ ! ....just wanted to make sure.

Are you going to change your screen name to 2.5tonyj now?

1tonyj · Mar 22, 2015

Ha...I should change it to outtamoneyYJ after all I'm putting into these axles :****:

patooyee · Mar 22, 2015

1tonyj said:
Ha...I should change it to outtamoneyYJ after all I'm putting into these axles :****:

Well at least once you're done you won't have to worry about the axles any more.

1tonyj · Mar 22, 2015

I'll be curious to see where the weak link moves too.

patooyee · Mar 22, 2015

1tonyj said:
I'll be curious to see where the weak link moves too.

My weak link is my spine now.

Edit: That's after presumably eliminating my previous weak link, which was my tires, by getting SX's.

1tonyj · Mar 22, 2015

Lol...copy that

Nuts · Mar 26, 2015

So if a guy was running rear steer and has 1 long u-joint shaft and 1 long birfield shaft, both stock, which would last longer in the rear? I'm thinking birfield in the rear, but this is my first set and want a second,third, fourth opinion. :drinkers:

fordcontraption01 · Mar 26, 2015

The burfield one will **** the bed first and tear the hell out of the closed knuckle sometimes completely rendering the housing useless :****:

YOUNG · Mar 26, 2015

1tonyj said:
How many of you guys have broken stock rockwell axle joints? Just curious.

2

Broke around 7 shafts between the front and rear before swapping over to the chromo 16 spline ouverson shafts. No more breakage after that.

traveler · Mar 26, 2015

fordcontraption01 said:
The burfield one will **** the bed first and tear the hell out of the closed knuckle sometimes completely rendering the housing useless :****:

any pics of said damage I would like to see this

Nuts · Mar 26, 2015

fordcontraption01 said:
The burfield one will **** the bed first and tear the hell out of the closed knuckle sometimes completely rendering the housing useless :****:

I'm not trying to be a ****, but are you speaking from personal experience or just hear say? Everything I've seen or read has pointed towards the birfield being stronger.

fordcontraption01 · Mar 27, 2015

My buddy had one under an f150 with 42s and the thing clicked since he had it and it finally blew apart and he had no choice but to keep driving it and all the broken **** ended up chewing the hell out of the housing and seal retainer was gone it chewed down the welds on the kingpins also. He had u joint shafts to go back in so he said **** it lets put it back together we had to die grind some of the inner housing back to smith it some. No I'm not any kind of machinist nor was he but we wheel our **** and have to do what we can ourselves to keep our **** going. So yes it can **** up the housing but I guess with enough money and a good machinist I guess it can be fixed. But no there was no pics of said damage but I personally have broken countless rear axles,blew the caps of the bull gear and almost ****ed up the housing because it had to be drove out of tellico no other option and I have a shitload of Brocken u joint shafts and I can take pics of all that ****. I ripped all 12 spindle bolts out of the rear knuckle on hellivator and broke the stub shaft and twisted the inner splines all at the same time. But I have yet to break an actual joint in one I did run one for a year with no needle bearings in it and it clicked when it was steered but the inner broke befor the joint so they must be fairly tuff.

Nuts · Mar 27, 2015

Jesus you're hard on stuff! Maybe I'll put it in the front. Just trying to figure out which way will keep me going the longest or until I can scrape up money for chromos