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ok, so i happen to think of this today. we all love full floater axles because on the trail when a shaft breaks, its easy to unbolt it and pull it out...... but how the heck do you get the inner end of the shaft out of the axle housing?
 
K5dreamer said:
ok, so i happen to think of this today. we all love full floater axles because on the trail when a shaft breaks, its easy to unbolt it and pull it out...... but how the heck do you get the inner end of the shaft out of the axle housing?
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Your referring to the snapped off piece?

Magnet on a steeck!
 
what if i leave my magnet in my other steechhkkk :)

duuude. if he has another steecchhkk, it means that one comes OUT!!! :haha:



ok sorry, back to the issue. so does that mean for those of us with full floating axles, a required trail tool should be a broom stick with a really strong magnet on the end? those chunks of axle shaft are heavy suckers.
 
K5dreamer said:
what if i leave my magnet in my other steechhkkk :)

duuude. if he has another steecchhkk, it means that one comes OUT!!! :haha:



ok sorry, back to the issue. so does that mean for those of us with full floating axles, a required trail tool should be a broom stick with a really strong magnet on the end? those chunks of axle shaft are heavy suckers.
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I guess if you figure your gona snap an axle you might want one along. Alternatley you could flop the rig on its side and dump out the pieces.:haha:
 
I don't think they break very often so it's probably not a big priority.

Just pop the diff cover or jack the opposite side of the truck in the air and jiggle it out.
 
with lifting the rig and shaking out the broken bits as my other option.... i think ill just glue a strong magnet in the end of a PVC pipe, and keep it in the truck.

opening the diff cover is what im trying to avoid with the full floater ;)

just curiosity.
 
opening the diff cover is what im trying to avoid with the full floater
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well, yeah but lots of your lube is going to pour out the end of the axle anyway so popping the cover just makes it easy to collect it all safely.

I'd worry about other stuff breaking before those axles though. You don't even need a magnet if you take the other shaft out and just press the steek all the way through from the other side. That way you can inspect both shafts while your there.
 
well, it wouldnt be a broken 14bff.... it would be a broken D70HD :D

didnt think about pulling both axles and just pushing a really long stick all the way through.

havent pulled my shafts to see if they're 30spline or 35spline.
 
K5dreamer said:
well, it wouldnt be a broken 14bff.... it would be a broken D70HD :D

didnt think about pulling both axles and just pushing a really long stick all the way through.

havent pulled my shafts to see if they're 30spline or 35spline.
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AFAIK, all D70 shafts are 35 spline unless they're really old, and those are pretty rare.
 
I would definitly pull the cover, to clean it up.
A broken axle can cause a lot of debris.
 
broken axle

well if poeple are worried about breaking axles what some poeple do with big truck axles is put a small grove in the outer end right next to the flange so it would be a slight weak spot in axle thats wre it would break if at all then unbolt flange pull out with fingers put new in and away you go.
 
with the ford 9''s we run in our derby cars, they have an outer bearing retainer & no c-clips, when we break an axle, we do pull the other side and run a rod through from the other side, sometimes it takes quite abit of force to get the broken shaft out, b/c sometimes the splines get twisted in the splines of the spool and we have to use a hammer on the rod from the opposite side and drive the broken piece out of the spool, then put it back together w/good axles. we have done it so much we can usually have the broken axle out and the rear end back together ready to run within 10-15 min w/o ever pulling the rear diff cover, but we don't run any brake parts on those rears, no drums or anything, so we don't have to deal w/any of that stuff. i imagine the same procedure would work on a rear ff 4x4 axle.
 
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