Anybody know where this ended up?

Markrobinson · Mar 16, 2022

So 10+ years back I built this rig:

It had Nissan/spidertrax/14 bolt axles (like hybrid 9s but for ghetto fab Nissan fan boys like me), 22r on propane, 4 links, and about 6 wires to make it all run. We had just bought a house and I didn't have any money to keep dumping into it so it was parted out.

Anybody know where the chassis may have ended up? I saw it pop up for sale here a few years back. Hoping it's rusting away behind someone's shop and wants to come home to build a kid crawler.

Bebop · Mar 16, 2022

The axles of this thing are why I'm on this board. I found some pics and logged in so I could message Mark about them.

Would be cool to put them back together.

Now there are companies in EU making 35sp spools and lockers for them.

ridered3 · Mar 16, 2022

Got any more pictures of the rig? Any idea where it headed off to when you sold it?

Markrobinson · Mar 16, 2022

Bebop said:
The axles of this thing are why I'm on this board. I found some pics and logged in so I could message Mark about them.

Would be cool to put them back together.

Now there are companies in EU making 35sp spools and lockers for them.

Funny thing is, there's a company out of California that sells them and has diamond build the housings. You won't find anyone in the Nissan community who will tell you any more loudly than me how stupid that is. The carrier journals end up super thin at 35 spline. It may make sense in other countries where patrol axles are common, but here you can build 14 bolts front and rear cheaper.

I may still be a bit bitter about them . If I'd used 60/14 bolt or even toy axles I probably would have kept it

Markrobinson · Mar 16, 2022

ridered3 said:
Got any more pictures of the rig? Any idea where it headed off to when you sold it?

Ironically these pics were found in a 2012 thread here when I was trying to sell it.

Dude that got it never did anything with it and it eventually sold again. No idea where it ended up from there.

Bebop · Mar 16, 2022

Markrobinson said:
Funny thing is, there's a company out of California that sells them and has diamond build the housings. You won't find anyone in the Nissan community who will tell you any more loudly than me how stupid that is. The carrier journals end up super thin at 35 spline. It may make sense in other countries where patrol axles are common, but here you can build 14 bolts front and rear cheaper.

I may still be a bit bitter about them . If I'd used 60/14 bolt or even toy axles I probably would have kept it

I remember that convo. Probably still have the PM in my inbox haha
The EU companies got around this with different bearings and thus keeping the journals at a decent size.