Topic: Anybody ever broke a detroit?

[lucky7]

Sheared all 4 studs on my steering arm then wasted my birf. Put it back together and wasted the new birf a quater mile later.While trying to get home on the trail my locker seemed to lock sometimes and not others wondering is it f****ed or since the driver's side wasn't spinning it wasn't locking? Input would be great 

[Hyena]

yes you broke it. many stories on here about that.

[lucky7 [OP]]

Any way to really test it ?

[4RunnerChevy]

What kind or locker, a Detroit locker, ez-locker, or ?

[Joey88RUNR]

yea, I think you can jack the front end up lock the hubs and turn one tire and it should lock and spin both tires, might not sound good with a broken birf though

[Yoat Goat]

I heard its not good to run a detroit up front with birfs, If the birf pops then it wipes out your detroit. Then you have a 600 dollar paper weight.

[lucky7 [OP]]

Well i guess the real ? is when thier broke are they done because mine seemed to work plus the drive birf was stripped so there was only partial resistance.

[Joey88RUNR]

 take it apart and see    

[Birfailed]

on my detroit I gotta spin the drive shaft, if I spin a tire it just acts like an open diff.

[Slolyfe]

X2

[RCKSQRL]

send me the "paperweight"!

Detroits (carrier style) are rebuildable. I broke mine when my inner and outer hub gears blew stripping the outer splines on the long (bobbys hub gear so all was warranteed, Thanks Bobby!) it sheared 2 teeth off of the inner locking mechanism on the detroit and wedged the driver side "open". Part was about $180 from eaton but better than having to replace the whole thing!

[sweetmeat]

Call me lucky but i broke a few birfs before i got my longs and it never broke my detroit.  Just took the splines off the inner axle where it goes into the birf

[lucky7 [OP]]

That's what i'm hoping

[sweetmeat]

For sure bro. I wouldnt worry about it. My buddy has broke a rear though when he broke a rear axle. But me or nobody in our wheelin group ( 8 ) yotas have never broke a detroit in the front.  And believe me were pretty hard on stuff