mossubi wrote:
Hey guys,
I figured the best way to update some pics was to make an album and share it with everyone.
The link is:
https://plus.google.com/photos/11092787 ... 5290590929As you can tell, I’ve done a little bit of work to it when i got it to just get her ready for the first trip out. I replaced both CV’s with VW7005 axels.
We headed to Ocotillio over the weekend to see how she was dialed in. First off, amazing car! So much power and super fun to drive. Did a few donuts, some whoops but nothing crazy.
Then disaster strikes. No more than 10 minutes after its first ride, one of the CVs popped off of the shaft. It ripped the boot, lost some bearings, completely broken. I haven’t taken it apart yet, but I’m wondering why this happened so quickly? They were brand new CV’s and i have a life time warranty with O’rileys so i’ll get it swapped out. But don’t want it to happen again of course.
Any thoughts? i’m not sure what else may have broke but i’ll find out and post up some pics and details as soon as I do tom afternoon.
I live in San Diego, and definitely looking for some help. Need a local mechanic to help with the major items like Engine, tranny, cv’s, etc.
Thanks guys, really loving the car and know it has some amazing capability. Just want to get it up and ready for the near desert season ASAP!
What was wrong with your old axles?
I have no clue what happen and why they failed but I would bet about anything that any of the high volume axle sellers are using rebuilders that are using the lowest quality parts they can buy from the china area of the world to rebuild your axles, they are NOT using the highest quality materials and the highest quality skilled labor to assemble the axles.
If it was mine I would go find some OEM axles even if they were used I would rely and bet on them old beat up OEM axles over a rebuild from Orilies or ANY other high volume low quality auto parts retailer, if I could not find a reason to replace the old axles I would reinstall them.
Other thoughts, was the axles that came with your car modified inside I know they use to modify the VW axles used on the briggs cars internally for more running angle, they ground deeper grooves inside some place so they would not bind up and break in use, chances are your axles had a similar mod done to them installing a unmodified axle would probably fail really soon if internal modifications were required.