Sinking Creek 4WD Association

Posted: **Thu Aug 30, 2007 11:53 pm**

killed a shaft as per terry's request:

Posted: **Thu Aug 30, 2007 11:55 pm**

damn, you already broke the 44? time for a 60

Posted: **Fri Aug 31, 2007 12:26 am**

BlueDodgeRam wrote:damn, you already broke the 44? time for a 60

Nah, just get some cromos.

Also when you called me tonight I was worried at first that you needed help but I was in no state to drive out to help you.

Posted: **Fri Aug 31, 2007 12:27 am**

Also tell me the story again when I am

Posted: **Fri Aug 31, 2007 7:14 am**

as much as i appreicate it randy, i really didn't expect you to break one just for me....... WHAT A PAL!

Posted: **Fri Aug 31, 2007 9:09 am**

oh and thanks to my personal mechanic ary and caleb the toolman trowbridge

Posted: **Fri Aug 31, 2007 9:23 am**

shmoken875 wrote:oh and thanks to my personal mechanic ary and caleb the toolman trowbridge

Anytime man, glad to help. Sorry you had to go home so early, you missed a good show on root hill by the stockish XJ on 31s

Posted: **Fri Aug 31, 2007 11:32 am**

well, that makes two good shows out of stockish XJ's on 31's and root hill..... anything pop on his?

Posted: **Fri Aug 31, 2007 12:04 pm**

TerryD wrote:well, that makes two good shows out of stockish XJ's on 31's and root hill..... anything pop on his?

Lots of banging pops and clicks, but no obvious failures. I suppose he'll find out later if he did any damage.

I beat on my junk pretty hard last night and I'm a bit scared to go look underneath right now. :shock:

Posted: **Fri Aug 31, 2007 1:00 pm**

shmoken875 wrote:oh and thanks to my personal mechanic ary and caleb the toolman trowbridge

we could have built u a new one with all the shit i carry

let me know if u need any help getting it back together

Posted: **Fri Aug 31, 2007 1:01 pm**

I'm bummed that I missed this rainy bobcat run. last time I was out there at night in the rain Miller rolled on special trail.

Posted: **Fri Aug 31, 2007 4:53 pm**

Ctrow wrote:
shmoken875 wrote:oh and thanks to my personal mechanic ary and caleb the toolman trowbridge
we could have built u a new one with all the shit i carry let me know if u need any help getting it back together

yea man, I was gonna do it today....but got lazy, I gave it another look and I believe that it broke at the neck-down as well as the ears, and the u-joint.

Posted: **Mon Sep 03, 2007 10:25 pm**

Warn Hub Fuses
Dana 44

Hub FuseTM
Designed for the special needs of hardcore competition rockcrawlers, here is a cure for most of the broken U-joint blues. The WARN Hub Fuse replaces the standard clutch ring in WARN hubs. It is designed to give before an expensive and difficult to replace U-joint. A spent Hub Fuse can be replaced in minutes on the trail with standard tools and costs much less than a U-joint.

Here's the story: The standard WARN Premium hublock clutch ring is designed to withstand over 80,000 inch-pounds of pressure, a 297x U-joint will normally break at around 55,000 inch pounds in a straight ahead condition (considerably less at an angle). The Hub Fuse is designed to work up to about 46,000 inch pounds.

So when the Hub Fuse works, it strips the teeth. So the competitor pulls the cap, replaces the spent Hub Fuse, then replaces the cap and gets back into competition quickly. It could be the difference between making history and being a footnote.

Fits all 1/2 ton (3 inch) internal mount hublocks and all external mount hublocks with triangles next to the 4x4 and 4x2 on the chrome cap.

Posted: **Mon Sep 03, 2007 10:35 pm**

There have been numerous instances on PBB where the hub fuse held and still blew the u-joint. Waste of money IMO.

Posted: **Mon Sep 03, 2007 10:58 pm**

or where the rig gets in a bind, pops a hub fuse, u joint or shaft, and is still in the same predicament, that is, stuck and broken.

save/spend the coin on some alloy usa shafts and some decent u joints, just my opinion.

Sinking Creek 4WD Association

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