My clean record of not breaking dana 44 axles has come to an end. 5 years of running them and my driving style must have changed cause I broke both front shafts, they sheared off right by the inner splines inside the carrier. The one side I was able to pull out with a 10lb capacity magnet but the other side I can't get it past the seal. Any ideas?
broken axle extraction ideas
- Thread starter lewis
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Milner
formerly "rckcrlr"
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Get a long piece of rod and drive it out from the other side....even detroits have a small hole in them that I have used rod through....
Kiel
Formerly WJ ZUK
You'll probably want to just remove the carrier, that way you can just punch it out. Then inspect the detroit or whatever and clean out the bearings etc. Nothing worst then going out and finding out you left chucks in there or your detroit was thrashed. I guess you need 60's now in moab....Jk
It has a lockright so still has center pin so can't punch it through. I can't remove the carrier cause the shaft is halfway in the carrier. Can't remove center pin to take out lockright because I can't take off the ring gear because the carreir won't come out.
Kiel
Formerly WJ ZUK
Use that arc welding rod trick where they weld a couple sticks together then run the current through them and weld it to the broken stub
Kiel
Formerly WJ ZUK
How long is the chunk broke in there. Have you actually tried to remove the carrier, mine broken int he same spot and I has able to weasel it out after slide hammering it out
The chunk is only as long as the splines so about 2 1/2 inches. I tried for like 6 hours in moab trying to weasel the carrier or the piece out til I gave up. We can move it back and forth with the magnet but not quite far enough to get the carrier out. It appears I put the seal in backwards because when I pull on the chunk it folds the edges of the seal inward trapping the piece in more. The other side that broke it slide out no problem. I was thinking of taking a hole saw to the seal but don't really want to. I have access to a stick welder but have never used it so I don't know how long the rods are cause I had wondered if I could weld the stick to it and yank hard on it. It is luckily on the short side of the axle.
chicken77
throttle jockey
Don't laugh but have you thought about some J B weld if you sprayed some brake cleaner in there to get thesurface nice and clean then used the the other half and and glued them back togethere it might hold strong enough to allow you to pull the broken piece out. Just a thought.
with the lockright there are not spider gears any more. I am thinking that a broken chuck of axle will be in the way of disassembling the lock right.
I was thinking that JB weld as well. Sounds like the chuck is loose, just nto getting past the seal. Or maybe pull apart or melt that seal to get it out of the way. With it gone it sounds like the magnet on a stick will work again
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can't remove the pin cause the ring gear is in the way.
The chunk is loose, hadn't thought of JB weld, I will try it though.
Make sure you keep the jb weld clean. IE don't get too much in there and JB weld the broken piece to anything else. Maybe some quick set epoxy may be easier to work with
Kiel
Formerly WJ ZUK
Not sure how practical it is now, but there was an article about a guy that drilled and taped his inner axles for coarse thread screws about 2 inches into the splines in the middle. When the shaft twisted off it left the hole and course thread exposed and he had a rod with a course screw welded to it and he would thread it in and pull them out
gijohn40
too poor to wheel... :(
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This is what I was going to suggest... I did this once with my old MB when I broke the shafts off