patooyee
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Eddyj said:So we need seals in the axle tube and behind spindle along with the sealed ujoint?
I'm sorry if I sound a little ignorant, it's just hard to wrap my head around that nobody has experimented with this. It seems one of the bigger drawbacks of running rocks is turning radius.
I'm fixing to tear my axles down, I just thought that there might be some upgrades I could do while I had them apart.
A steering axle already has seals in the tubes. And from my understanding all the modern u-joints these days are sealed. So that just leaves the spindle and the kingpins that remain unsealed if you leave the boot off.
People have experimented with it. Ouverson has machined the spindles to fit a seal but I believe it left them too thin for comfort. I could be mistaken there since I'm not part of the Ouverson R&D department. I think its one of those things where doing it right ends up requiring custom spindles and knuckles which then is out of the price range of most potential customers.