Topic: broken parts

[L.D.]

WELL, i was quite surprised today to find that what i thought was a broken hub, on the short side, wound up bein the outer splines of my 30 spline LONGFIELD   " WAT TH HELL WAS THAT? " gotta call Bobby an get a new one ASAP. I'm headed for the DUCY for labor day wknd. this isn't a common thing is it?

[jimbo74]

breaking longs is not very common, it does happen though.

[L.D. [OP]]

my rig is a '79 p/u w/35" tires. may be the 302, an mp435 helped

[MiniSimp]

It is common to have a broken/stripped outer spline if your hub is broken, and that is not warrentied unless you have Longs hubs also.

[L.D. [OP]]

maybe i misstated it , wat is striped is the inner splines in the birf, and the outer splines on the axle itself. not the splines that my hub slide onto. the hub isn't damaged at all. see, thats wat surprises me is the hub, or even the ausse locker should have gone first. stock hubs make for a good fusible link.

[MiniSimp]

Wierd. Got pics?

[L.D. [OP]]

no, not yet. i figure Bobby will ask the same thing

[L.D. [OP]]

OH MAN, BOBBY IS SENDING ME A NEW SET OF BIRFS, AND THE SHORT AXLE TODAY. I'M GOING INTO THE CON ON FRIDAY, AND THEN ON TO SEE THE DUSY FOR LABOR DAY. MAN I HOPE THEY GET HERE ON TIME. He said that this is only the second time this has happened, just my luck

[bigarms23]

My friend and i broke his longfields when we took his 4runner to the cliffs insane terrain park course his 4runner is running 39.5boggers with 10inches of lift and triple t-cases it happened when we were really off camber

[L.D. [OP]]

i had gone threw sledgehammer and was going out threw the last set of rocks to the hillclime out, sitten level.

[Hyena]

I cracked the splines on the inner star on both my 30 splines causing my inners to spin a spline every now and then.  didn't hurt the inners though.  bobby sent me two brand new birfs.  that was with 37's and a tired 22re.  how old where yours?  where they the first gen ones with the 4340 inner star?

[Volcom]

maybe i misstated it , wat is striped is the inner splines in the birf, and the outer splines on the axle itself. not the splines that my hub slide onto. the hub isn't damaged at all. see, thats wat surprises me is the hub, or even the ausse locker should have gone first. stock hubs make for a good fusible link.

Wow, usually it's the outer splines, the hub, or a R&P/locker.  That's impressive!

[bigarms23]

I have only broken 2 sets of longfields on my old 854runner. 1 set due to previous owner didnt install properly the second on winch hill 3 on fordyce but i also had 4.7 gears in all 3 t-cases and add that with 39.5 boggers