Has anyone had any experience breaking a rear axle.
Ive fitted Bay IRS to my bus project but since I cant get a rear disc brake set up for that size axle, I am considering going back to Type 1 or 3 axles and trailing arms.
Yeah , bad planning!

thankya!

Mark

[ Edited on 5-10-2006 by choppa ]

Kraut axles are made from pretty stern stuff M8. You could try real hard and possibly break a 36hp tapered axle but thew rest should do the job.
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I guess you mean stub axles?

The actual axles are the same diameter and spline pattern for type 1, 2 and 3. The type 2 are just longer. So they all should be about the same strength.

The type 1 stub axles are stronger than the axles. You won't break a stub axle unless you are doing something really silly.

Are thanks.
Yeah I was talkin the stub axles. :thumb
Bay ones are 35mm diameter and Beetle and Type 3 are 30mm I think.
Thats eased my concerns abit. Early splittys had 30mm stubs anyway.

Its a street bus but it will have a bit of mumbo one day. Hence the 4 wheel discs i am fitting.

Cool.

Ahh sry my bad. i didnt read it carefully enough.........duh!

I have never had a stub axle fail.

Both the IRS axles and stubs will serve you well.

The CV may need to be upgraded to bus ones though, depending on engine torque.

I have see the thread end fall off on a stock type 3 though, from over tensioning.

Hi Mark,

I still have some customers running type3 stubs in off road buggies. They don't have any problems with the stubs breaking, but with that hard work of all the jumps and stuff the spline on the hub ware over a long time (years).

I do however have a set of discs made from a 1968 wide 5 bay (long stub axle) drum. These are made for racing and not for road use and run Commodore front callipers (1085 pads). They are as strong as but because they have been fabricated and machined up out of the Kombi drum and a Jeep rotor with an adapter plate, you would be hard pressed to get it passed for road use. Also if you don’t care at all alloy racing hubs in wide 5 with Kombi spline start at $550…..lol

Thanks boys.

Thats confirmed it. I am gonna go start cutting the bay pivots out tonight.
Dont think my bus will be runnin berms or doin mono's but its nice to know the T1 axles will do the job.
Yeah I am gonna run bus CV's inner and outer.
I have a set of discs that will slide on the small axles and should pass inspection as is. So shouldnt have trouble there .

Mark

Check with John Sherman in Qld.-fairly sure he has a disc kit for the 35mm stub axle.

Yeah
cheers,

oh well the angle grinders already done his work

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Originally posted by bajachris88 yup, tis y kombi box conversions in bugs require modded axles...

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/VW-Volkswagen-Beetle-STUB-AXLE-FLANGE-KIT_W0QQitemZ260...

Yeah EMPI now makes output bells to fit T1 spline and T2 spline and with bus cv flange. About $50 us and they also make T1 stubs with bus cv flanges at about $70us.
Most decent us retailers sell em. They look good quality.
On my notch I have T1 stubs with bus flanges shrunk and welded on as Dave said. They work well.
Rancho sells all that stuff as well as Moors and CB's and Serranos I think.

As for the axles I am eaither gonna turn down the bus cv inner spline hub to fit the T1 axle spline length or cut and narrow a bus axle to the right overall length.
Not too sure yet. Maybe ill have to run custom axles.

Mark