This isnt anything to important, but I was checking out their stuff and the work they did on cruisers and one thing I noticed is that for even their 44" tire conversions they upgraded the suspension to handle the tires, and the brakes, and a lift to accomidate them, but I didn't notice anything being done to the axles to strengthen them, I mean I know the 90 and 100 series prolly have the bigger birfs like our US 80's but still, do they really get away with huge and really wide (for the snow and ice) 44" tires with stock axles? Especially on the 70 series, cause arnet those axles the same thing as late model US 40 series axles? Maybe some different sizes, but i'm just curious to figure out whether they just choose not to list what they do to the axles or are they putting something special in the metal up there, lol.


Mitch

The 70 series axels are the same as the 80 and 100 series axels. I think they use dana 50 axels on the 100 series.

one thing to remember is they are not seeing alot of real torque type stuff, what i mean is, for the most part they are not doing steep rutted climbs with lots of tire spinning, nor are they getting the tires wedged in rock and root. old schoolers will remember the monster street trucks, they all had 44's and most of them were half ton trucks with nothing more than D44 axles, unless you put alot of power or torque to them they hold up just fine. most of the wheeling they do in the arctic is undulating terrain, easy on axles by most off road standards.

Thas cool, atleast it still says somethin about the strength of our axles, I mean do you really think Dana 30's would hold up to that? lol


Mitch