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Super 44 Ujoints

Wheel hopping will break shafts real easy. A locker doesnt allow you to wheel hop so bad so it is a good sense that way, but a locker can break an axle when it sends the power to the tire thats on the ground and all the power to it is too much for it, where an open would send it to the on in the air.

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Hoss if you run the fuses and are going to use a locker as well in that axle check into the possibility that if the fuse blows when your tires are turned it can take out your locker and wreck it.... why I have opted to go with them since I will have a detriot rear and arb front....

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I run an ARB in the 44 up front. With the warn axls and fuses. Before the locker I was snaping u-joints, hubs and axels. I so shaterd a stub axels one time that I never got it out of the spindel. I had to replace the axestub, spindel, u-joint and the Hub. The main thing the locker does is stop the power from shifting from side to side, this was when I would snap something.
 
Yep, most times when the joint fails it will take a shaft or two with it, so having a stronger joint from the get-go will help save the shafts I would think, here is a pic of my last D44 breakage before I went D60, it took the ears off of both shafts;
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I know Watson had pretty good luck with his chrome molly shafts, but I was with him when he broke a joint when he ran 37's so I just cut my losses and upgradded to a D60, just depends on the wheeling you want to do.

Steve

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Jess,

If you have 35 spline d60 stubs shafts along with your chromo x joint, ware is the first breaking point.

Russ
 
I want to run an ARB front, but if not I will probably run posi so my turning is not effected. By the time I can put one in they might also have an OX locker out for the 10 bolt.
 
I'm not talking about the turning being affected... I was meaning you run the fuses and you head down a trail... you come to a part and you turn your wheels and hit the gas and you can't go.... you tap the gas some more and then the fuse goes with the tires turned like this.... I was really thinking of running these fuses but I have read a few times that if this occurs and you have a locker you could damage even destroy the locker... anyhow that's what I meant...! [some]

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I already have the fuses installed on my truck, so my options are ARB or Posi. I also want to be able to turn my truck, so I'm back to ARB or Posi. I read somewhere that the ARB should be okay even if a fuse lets go. I think it was in Peterson's 4 Wheel, but I'm not sure exactly. I think it has been posted on here too that an ARB would survive a fuse, and I assumed you knew. My fault. Sorry for the miscommunication.

Harley
 
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