Breaking Birfields every wheelin trip!! Need help!!

crash2 · Oct 27, 2009

budgetxj said:
yeah, im sure he wished he had the newer ones. The older ones didnt turn 40degrees though and he lost 3 of the cages

And best part about that is a stock toy housing can't go 40 degrees--so you can have fubared steering stops and won't break them because of it.

Ed Bister · Oct 27, 2009

Spanaway Mudder said:
Either go beat your junk..Or stay home and bitch about not being up there.. Pretty simple man!!:awesomework:

Iam sure that Reiter is going to become a slaughter house for a few rigs this coming weekend...:haha:

Dam Jeep guys/Gabe dont have a clue what a broken birfield will do to your housing.:kissmybutt: Easy for you to say you don't have to pay for it or do the work on the trail......

crash2 · Oct 27, 2009

edbister said:
Dam Jeep guys/Gabe dont have a clue what a broken birfield will do to your housing.:kissmybutt: Easy for you to say you don't have to pay for it or do the work on the trail......

We had one that we went thru 10 birfs in it--it killed it. Almost every one damaged the seal area too so that had to be constantly fixed too. This was in the day we only had marfields(for aftermarket) which were not any good...

Damnyankee · Oct 27, 2009

the other thing you can do ed, is........

Learn to drive.:fawkdancesmiley:

:beer:

k2blazen · Oct 27, 2009

also broke a berfield this weekend

Now if you brake one and you have a detroit locker should I disassemble entire front end to make sure the metal fragments did not get into the locker and contaminate it or just put the new axles back in leaving the 3rd.What would you do I now people just throw new axles in and call it good. So iam in the market for some longs and debating on disassembling entire front end .What you think is the right way?Trying to get this done by the weekend to make it to Rieter.

crash2 · Oct 27, 2009

k2blazen said:
Now if you brake one and you have a detroit locker should I disassemble entire front end to make sure the metal fragments did not get into the locker and contaminate it or just put the new axles back in leaving the 3rd.What would you do I now people just throw new axles in and call it good. So iam in the market for some longs and debating on disassembling entire front end .What you think is the right way?Trying to get this done by the weekend to make it to Rieter.

for some reason the toy verion of a detroit doesn't seem to get harmed like a d30 and d44. Its not the metal fragments thats an issue its the recoil of the axle breaking that takes out the side gear assy... I would throw a new birf in and see what it does.

k2blazen · Oct 27, 2009

crash said:
for some reason the toy verion of a detroit doesn't seem to get harmed like a d30 and d44. Its not the metal fragments thats an issue its the recoil of the axle breaking that takes out the side gear assy... I would throw a new birf in and see what it does.

Cool thats what I want to hear thanks for the advice crash .:awesomework:

Ed Bister · Oct 27, 2009

Damnyankee said:
the other thing you can do ed, is........

Learn to drive.:fawkdancesmiley:

:beer:

hahahaha shut your pie hole yankee....LOL! it's a good thing we are friends!! :fawkdancesmiley::kissmybutt:

Damnyankee · Oct 27, 2009

if you are worried, its still pretty easy to pull the third just to make sure no crap worked its way down and into your gears... it shouldnt but.....

Ed Bister · Oct 27, 2009

Damnyankee said:
if you are worried, its still pretty easy to pull the third just to make sure no crap worked its way down and into your gears... it shouldnt but.....

Pretty easy is a under statement!!

if your installing long's and need to take apart both side's ...YES pulling the third it no biggie.....but doing a trail repair on one side it's kinda silly to pull apart your good side just to look in the third. just drain the fluid and refill and keep wheelin!!:awesomework:

Damnyankee · Oct 27, 2009

edbister said:
Pretty easy is a under statement!! if your installing long's and need to take apart both side's ...YES pulling the third it no biggie.....but doing a trail repair on one side it's kinda silly to pull apart your good side just to look in the third. just drain the fluid and refill and keep wheelin!!:awesomework:

It sounded as if he was in a shop.

No question, if your on teh trail, throw one in and head off.:beer:

Ed Bister · Oct 27, 2009

Damnyankee said:
It sounded as if he was in a shop.

No question, if your on teh trail, throw one in and head off.:beer:

Agreed......LOL he is in a nice warm shop! lucky sumbitch and all his nice stuff! I do all my wrenchin in my driveway.......:booo:

Ms. Pink · Oct 27, 2009

**** what's a shop? im either on cold wet concrete dirt mud, my trailer deck. **** ive done alot of work in the rain.

Damnyankee · Oct 27, 2009

Ms. Pink said:
**** what's a shop? im either on cold wet concrete dirt mud, my trailer deck. **** ive done alot of work in the rain.

my offer still stands... wanna marry me? lol:masturbanana[1]:

Ed Bister · Oct 27, 2009

Ms. Pink said:
**** what's a shop? im either on cold wet concrete dirt mud, my trailer deck. **** ive done alot of work in the rain.

I will give it to ya your one of a kind but I was talking about when your home not wheelin. I have seen you install more then one set of axles in you Jeep in the same day out wheelin...LOL!! in a monsoon!!!.....LOL!!

:cheer::awesomework:

Ms. Pink · Oct 27, 2009

edbister said:
I will give it to ya your one of a kind but I was talking about when your home not wheelin. I have seen you install more then one set of axles in you Jeep in the same day out wheelin...LOL!! in a monsoon!!!.....LOL!!

same at home i dont even have a car port concrete grass trailer. lol i make a cover by puting a harp over the jeep an tie to the side of the house. :rb:

an yankee so kind of ya, im feeling the love. but aren't you already married. ill come show her how to change an axle, even a oil change **** im a pro at changing clutchs. haha:awesomework:

Darby1 · Oct 27, 2009

Everyone says 30's like it's the ONLY option! I wheel my junk hard and I have 27's. Haven't given me any grief. Forget what everyone says, your not building their dream rig, your building on a budget, just like me. Get the 27's Ed and don't worry about it. Just keep an eye on your steering stops, they allready looked bent when I had my head under there.

Ed Bister · Oct 27, 2009

Darby said:
Everyone says 30's like it's the ONLY option! I wheel my junk hard and I have 27's. Haven't given me any grief. Forget what everyone says, your not building their dream rig, your building on a budget, just like me. Get the 27's Ed and don't worry about it. Just keep an eye on your steering stops, they allready looked bent when I had my head under there.

Totally bent!! I will ajust them all the way out! I'm picking up the 27's tonight or tomorrow from Mark M and we need to meet up and try to wheel again this weekend!!! Shoot me a PM with your number BROSKI!!!:awesomework:

Bunk1 · Oct 27, 2009

Does anyone else here know how to 'feel' what their rig is doing? I blew 2 birfs in 8 years, and that was with 33's, 34's 36's and 38.5's..Toy axles are fragile little things, You gotta baby em.

Darby1 · Oct 27, 2009

Bunk said:
Does anyone else here know how to 'feel' what their rig is doing? I blew 2 birfs in 8 years, and that was with 33's, 34's 36's and 38.5's..Toy axles are fragile little things, You gotta baby em.

I made it for awhile with stock axles. Then they started breaking a lot. Right about the time my tires started falling off the rims all the time. It's like you cross a certain threshhold an suddenly you can't go without chromo's and beadlocks. Then all your friends show up in tube buggys and you realize you've been taking the easy lines