need your help with axles

[redrockcrawler]

i am building new axles and i can't decide on rockcrusher or currie rock jock centers if any one has used them i could use your feedback

 

[Mt. Logan Off-Road]

axle

My vote is for the Currie Iron Jock.

 

[Milner]

I haven't seen any problems with rockcrusher/solid, tera has gotten a lot better in the last couple of years, but if it was me I would go with Currie too.

 

[Cody]

I like the spidertrax 9 centers personally. If I can afford them thats the way I'll go.

Cody

 

[Milner]

I like the spidertrax 9 centers personally. If I can afford them thats the way I'll go.

Cody

Yep, with tru-high 9" centers they are uber

 

[Cody]

and those fancy knuckles that can turn up to 50*

Yum.

 

[waynehartwig]

They had this same discussion on Pirate, where a guy asked this exact same question. He ended up going with the Spider 609 housings, True Hi9 centers, and Solid spindles/hubs for the rear full floater.

 

[Milner]

They had this same discussion on Pirate, where a guy asked this exact same question. He ended up going with the Spider 609 housings, True Hi9 centers, and Solid spindles/hubs for the rear full floater.

Sounds like a NICE set up!

 

[Kiel]

and those fancy knuckles that can turn up to 50*

Yum.

Are those the spider trax ones? They have some sweet stuff. I have heard of a couple guys breaking the hi9 stuff though, what is the application for the axles?

 

[Cody]

Ya, spidertrax makes the axles and I think there are a couple of suppliers for the shafts that will turn that far w/o binding.

People have been breaking the hi 9's? I haven't heard that but it is interesting.

 

[Kiel]

Ya, spidertrax makes the axles and I think there are a couple of suppliers for the shafts that will turn that far w/o binding.

People have been breaking the hi 9's? I haven't heard that but it is interesting.

Yeah a couple guys on pirate. They said it was a bad gear pattern at least the shop did. Then they set up a new one and it happened again a couple months later I also read that thread on POR about machining yukon 4340 axles to turn 50 degrees, so far with no failures in 3 comps

 

[waynehartwig]

Sounds like a NICE set up!

I'm definately jealous I've been following that thread for about 8 months. He's basically doing the same thing to his Rubicon that I just did to mine...With different axles of course.

 

[waynehartwig]

Contact True HI9 about failures. The guy is very honest about them and will straight up tell you all of them he's had. I know that the 5.14 gears are very weak, so if you're running larger tires, go up in size to 5.38's - they are over 2x stronger than the 5.14's. The Hi9 5.14's are no stronger than a D60 5.13.

If I was oging to be putting larger tires (+40") in my rig, I would run a True HI9 before I would even touch a RCD60 (in the back), IMO. Even on my personal rig, I was going to do a RCD60, but the popular consensus was 40" tires max, even though Currie says 44". Sometimes I trust the guys that actually beat the crap out of them to tell me what the max is than the manufacture.... Even with my 39" tires, I chose a LPD60 in the rear because I didn't want to spend the $$$'s and go Spidertrax/HI9.... But I would have done a RCD60 if the strength woudl ahve been there..