redrock_4x4
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mbryson said:
They are full circle clips. Shafts prices have come down a lot over the last few years, mainly because you don't need a hub conversion anymore to upgrade the shafts. At that price, or whatever All Jeep's price is which we'd gladly match or beat
, w/ Alloy USA's 10 yr. no questions asked warranty it's definitely worthwhile to upgrade the 30. That should buy you a lot of time to save up for a 60 .mbryson said:
I've never had one really bend bad but I have noticed my camber change slightly several times over the years. The housing isn't visibly bent though. I've never had a ball joint go either, quite honestly I don't know why I don't experience these problems everyone else does as I certainly do play hard. I grenaded a stock shaft once, and upgraded shafts 2 years ago. My only problems since were inside the diff w/ the 36" Irok's which were just too big for the 30. 35" MT/R's have proven to be my limit.
I have seen ball joints go on the 30's, but only after a u-joint failure. If a u-joint blows the ball joint out and ruins the press fit in the process, that's another story.
My understanding is that the axle is bending at the inner C, generally the tubes themselves are not bending. I don't know if that's always the case or not as again I haven't really seen a badly bent D30, but I would assume that's what's been happening on mine w/ the camber changing.
Assuming that's where the bending issue really is, I would recommend a gusset from the housing to the C like Currie is doing here:
Small picture and weird example I know but you can sort of see what they're doing.
If that didn't take care of it and the actual housing was bending, I'd probably re-tube it if I knew of someone good to do it locally (which I don't anymore). If re-tubing wasn't an option, and I couldn't stop bending them, I'd upgrade.
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