jward1
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How do you tell what 7,10,12,k axles I have? On a 1986 m1038
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Yes they are "aftermarket" but I have beat on them with over 450HP and I have only been able to kill them with 3 digit speeds.At those prices would they be Chinese knock offs or domestic? I want to do this once and not mess with it for a long time. I was thinking the OEM ones were like 450 each. I'm not sure which ones I have. It's a 32 spline 2004 M1123 with the large vented brake rotors. Would that be 12k or 10 k?
Zippy Ties (as the wife calls them) would be a real cheap fix!!Thinking about the ballooning problem, I looked around on the internet a bit and found a few examples of CV boots equipped with anti-ballooning rings. Some pictures and a file with links:
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.Well I wish I had tried something, that Summit half shaft did not last long, I do not think I ever exceeded 80MPH in the 400 or so miles it was on there, went to Corpus for supplies today and picked up a bad vibration on I37 in town, stopped and as you can see the dang thing has even changed color indicating it was pretty damn hot, that is smoke in the picture not a dirty lens it looked like it was about to catch on fire.
I was almost 40 miles from home, so I limped down the shoulder at 25-30MPH, checked again after about 8 miles and it was not nearly as hot, I had also put it in 4WD to try and relieve some of the torque and to hopefully guarantee I would be able to power my way out of trouble in case the shaft let go.
So I guess I will take the last shaft and rebuild it with OEM boots, it was not run long enough to hurt it.
This shaft on the other hand is toasted pretty good, was complaining pretty loudly by the time I got to the gate.
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One saving grace was one of my stops was at Clemtex for blasting media for my cabinet, I have been using glass beads and wanted to try something more aggressive, I selected two types of media and they were so impressed with the DuraVee and it's 20lb of engine in a 10lb engine bay they called the $80 worth of media "samples", said to get back to them on which one I preferred so that pretty much paid for that half shaft!.
Wow for sure!
At least she got you home - and made it under her own power...
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