Lynnmor wrote:
rhagfo wrote:
Do you really think the axles are made out of tubing so thin that jacking on the tube will collapse it??? :h
If they were the first bump in the road would bend the axle and the tire would be at a 20 degree angle.
Some axle tubes are extremely thin. If you have ever changed an axle, you might have seen that the u-bolts have formed an indent. I use the flattened type of u-bolts to help prevent the indent.
They are 1/4" thick and on a radius so nearly impossible to bend in a short distance as when locating the jack next to u-bolts. Go to a scrap yard and ask to see a piece of 3" schedule 40 pipe, same as tubes on 3500# and up axles until you get to maybe 8or9K axles then they get thicker wall.