D30 Shafts

[nate]

Fixed my front shafts.

http://www.98Jeepzj.com/stuff/d30shafts.jpg

[97trxuszj]

you don't think you fried the grease and needle bearings?

[JpRngr]

Do the u-joints still move? LOL!

[nate]

Nope I didn't fry anything and yes they move just fine. All I did is tack weld them in place. I probably would have melted them if I ran a bead all the way around.

The shafts are basically junk and I did that so I can use the shafts for a while longer. When I break something, they are going in the dumpster. I have another set of spares and a set of stubs, so not like I'm depending on these too much.

[Jim311]

I think a bird shat all over your axle shafts :flipoff2:

[fr3db3ar]

I'm thinking that's overengineered :smt046

A couple of tacks would have been sufficient.

[nate]

Nope. I had a couple tacks before and it didn't hold. Why just put a few tacks when going all the way around would be that much stronger? I have no intentions of replacing the u joints if they fail anyway. The shafts are consumable.


No bird shitting. Like I said, it's a bunch of tack welds, not a weld bead. It's been like 6 months since I welded last, so that didn't help though.

[gearhead313]

Nice man :lol:


Jus when they explode, they'll look like the ones I posted :P

[OverkillZJ]

WTF! LMAO!

Ya... If I was blowing ring gears when I only had mine tacked in 3 places, I think you may've used a "few" unecessary tacks!

[nate]

Yeah maybe so, but where your shafts stretched to the point that the caps kept rotating? I had tacked them in 2 places and the tacks just broke and the caps spun.

If all I'm going to do is be critizied, I just won't post stuff on here. It's not that off the wall to weld in the U joints.

[OverkillZJ]

You never mentioned the ears were already stretched and caps rotating. Well actually you did down 10 posts but I didn't read it so that's your problem :finga:

As far as criticism, ya, thicker skin :) - you dish it out too, and no one really said anything negative here. Sure they're tack welds, but they look like chicken shit. It's about as good as a tack weld can look going all the way round like that, but.... still looks like chicken shit. So what's the problem? Enjoy your chicken shit shafts, they'll be fine.

[Krash80]

Destroyed my front shafts.


Even if you didn't fry the needle bearings/caps, you probable weakened the crap out of the yoke ears by screwing up the way that they were heat treated and the way your heat-affected-zone from the welds traveled through them and then rapidly cooled.

Let us know how long they hold up.

[LouisianaZJ]

fawk it, just run it till they blow. its not like he he is welding on CTMS to new alloy D60 shafts.

they are d30 shafts, they will probably snap like pixy sticks after a couple runs anyway

p.s. i bet you could sell that set of "high stength d30 shafts" as is on ju for $150 right now

[nate]

I got this idea from Brook, he runs a buggy with 44 Ag tires. He did this to some tired D60 shafts and it worked out good for him.

The other option I was going to do was to pull the joints out and locktight them in, but that was too much work.

I have had those shafts for 4 years now.

[AprilzWarrior]

p.s. i bet you could sell that set of "high stength d30 shafts" as is on ju for $150 right now


I got $220 for mine :smt042 :D

[nate]

Hmm. For that price I'll go dig up junkyard shafts and send them to my brother and have him Tig weld them and sell them on JU.

Hmm. :D

[phillyzj]

Hmm. For that price I'll go dig up junkyard shafts and send them to my brother and have him Tig weld them and sell them on JU.

Hmm. :D

then throw them in the oven and say they are "heat treated":smt116

[Kraqa]

you shoudl sand the tacks smooth and post them on JU to sale as NO-BLOW shafts. the U-joint is cast right into the shaft. some sort of german engineering at its finest. i think they go for at least 600.00