Never heard of these shafts until yesterday, so I did a little research today, and this is what I found.

Randy's R&P is selling Yukon 4340 Chromoly front 44 shafts for around $390 for inners, outers, and new U-joints.

All this info came from the guy on the other end of the phone, so take it for what it's worth, but this is all the info he told me.

They are not selling someone elses shafts as Yukon brand, they are supposedly making them as a unique brand. It sounded like they are subcontracting the actual production though, which could mean that they are pretty close to someone elses shafts.

They are 4340 chromoly alloy(I'm no metalurgist, so I didn't ask many more questions about make-up or hardening, etc.).

They are for the large 1 3/16" caps(duh), and are machined to accept full circle clips.

They are supposedly getting thier first batch in about 6 weeks, but they are taking back orders now.

They have a no questions asked 5 year warranty(not sure if it covers yoke distortion caused by U-joint failure, forgot to ask).

The guy I was talking to said they tested thiers against Mosers, and Mosers failed first. He said they then sent the shafts back to be hardened one more time after that(not sure about the hardening procedure, that's just what he said. Bear in mind...THEY tested them). This, of course, led him to believe, and claim, that the Yukon shafts are better than, or at least as good as, any other alloy shaft out there.

These are the prices he gave me, which he said would apply to just about all 44 fronts(not sure if that meant stock lengths or custom lengths included), and this was prefaced by "If I remember correctly..."

long side inner $120
short side inner $90
stubs $65 each

full set with u-joints about $390

If these shafts really are everything they claim, that's one HELL of a price break from everybody else.

I posted earlier about this, before I got this info, and nobody replied.

Anybody else heard anything about these axles?

someone smarter then me call them and find out how they compare against Warn's
400 bucks is a swinging deal comparsed to the 550 of Warns, ahh screw it as long as the give a warrenty i will buy em in like 1.5 month's and thrash em for ya guys

Just talked to someone that says Randy's has been supposed have a shipment of these axles in, in 6 weeks, for the last 8 months, and they are actually more like up around $500. :confused:

Just another angle on it. Don't know what to believe:mad:

my guess is that they are made in china. which means that even if you gave them to me i would probally not even use them as tent stakes.

Originally posted by camo
my guess is that they are made in china. which means that even if you gave them to me i would probally not even use them as tent stakes.

So you're guessing, but really you have no good info or hard evidence on the subject. :rolleyes: Thanks for your input :flipoff2:

Originally posted by Ben W


So you're guessing, but really you have no good info or hard evidence on the subject. :rolleyes: Thanks for your input :flipoff2:

don't make me bitch slap a fellow mod. it just looks bad. :flipoff2: anyhow just got off the phone with randy's and the FACT is they are being made in india. if you were to look at their M.O. they build thier yukon brand of crap overseas. so go figure my so called no good info or hard evidence was not that far off base now was it?

I guess you were only 2000 miles off. And I hear India has a pretty high level of tent technology, so for your application, they should work well.

Originally posted by Ben W
I guess you were only 2000 miles off. And I hear India has a pretty high level of tent technology, so for your application, they should work well.

ya i think i will run them in my KIA :flipoff2:

oh and india and china border each other so bite me. :flipoff2:

This is making more sense now. It sounded too good to be totally true:mad2:

if it makes you feel any better, your truck was probably made over there too, or most of the parts. course i guess most of them have been replaced or fallen off by now.

I'd wait on price, with the possibility of import steel having a 40 percent tariff.

Originally posted by aaronlosey
if it makes you feel any better, your truck was probably made over there too, or most of the parts. course i guess most of them have been replaced or fallen off by now.

actually my rig was built in my garage :flipoff2:

*cough* bullshit *cough*

Originally posted by camo
actually my rig was built in my garage :flipoff2:

ok fawker it was built in a friends driveway and my garage. :flipoff2: geez cut a guy some slack :flipoff2:

Sure Sure and next your gonna tell everyone you own a glitter factory and know Lance!!! Right. :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Originally posted by camo
ok fawker it was built in a friends driveway and my garage. :flipoff2: geez cut a guy some slack :flipoff2:

if these axles are made by the yukon gear company, I'll be staying way the h*ll away from them, only from the quality of gears they put out.

don't anybody get your hopes up about the shafts i just talked to a guy at randy's and he said they wouldn't be in until around the middle of may!

Yukon gear is nothin more than a name and marketing strategy. there are no yukon gear products they are someone elses put into a yukon gear box and sold. plainly as a marketing strategy. if you dont like the gears they are selling you, they will say well we could sell you yukon gears and take the gears you did not want , put them in a yukon gear box and sell them to you that way. inside information.