Semi floater,full floating rear axel.
What are these new heavy towing and hauling half tons using for a rear axel. I have always considered the full floaters the most capable especially the ones with 35 splines and above. If you break...
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Rhetorical, know the answer...why did they 'need' to tack weld the C-Clip?
Because it is a weak link of any Semi that has a C-Clip design
Hot Rodding around back in my teens...was sitting in the back seat cruising the
local boulevard....dragging from stop light to stop light...
GTO was buddies who I helped build...
Beating up other buddies rides that I also helped build...
My ride was the family's second station wagon...a pink 1954 Ford...not
'my' car, but the families and dad won't let me hop it up...you guys
should understand trying to get a date with my pink Ford vs the other
guys and their Mustangs (no Camaro's yet), GTO's and Vettes...so rode
with them most of the time...
Noticed a wheel poking out on my side (passengers) and it had a rod connected to
it...that seems to be part of the GTO I was in...
Lucky, as the other guys honked and pulled over...
Busted C-Clip and very common among rodders. I've changed out many in my teens
and they were mangled and/or worn thin so that they either busted or mangled
enough to come out without taking out the axle keeper rod
Side loading that tapered bearings solve. Have to understand by Timken invented
tapered roller bearings...thrust loads that a straight roller bearing does not
manage
Just this year...have come across two vehicles (cars) on the side of the road
with their wheel/axle out about 3 feet. Freeway exit ramps, so no time to take
my cell phone out for a pic...other was on the side of the freeway so
again no time to take out the cell...
Because it is a weak link of any Semi that has a C-Clip design
Hot Rodding around back in my teens...was sitting in the back seat cruising the
local boulevard....dragging from stop light to stop light...
GTO was buddies who I helped build...
Beating up other buddies rides that I also helped build...
My ride was the family's second station wagon...a pink 1954 Ford...not
'my' car, but the families and dad won't let me hop it up...you guys
should understand trying to get a date with my pink Ford vs the other
guys and their Mustangs (no Camaro's yet), GTO's and Vettes...so rode
with them most of the time...
Noticed a wheel poking out on my side (passengers) and it had a rod connected to
it...that seems to be part of the GTO I was in...
Lucky, as the other guys honked and pulled over...
Busted C-Clip and very common among rodders. I've changed out many in my teens
and they were mangled and/or worn thin so that they either busted or mangled
enough to come out without taking out the axle keeper rod
Side loading that tapered bearings solve. Have to understand by Timken invented
tapered roller bearings...thrust loads that a straight roller bearing does not
manage
Just this year...have come across two vehicles (cars) on the side of the road
with their wheel/axle out about 3 feet. Freeway exit ramps, so no time to take
my cell phone out for a pic...other was on the side of the freeway so
again no time to take out the cell...
