bent housing?!?

blackdoutxj · Jun 11, 2007

well ben(dumptruck) an i think that my housings bent cause my tires are both wearing on the outsides of the tire.....and i have had this axle on there since..id say october...and the tire wear was fine until about a month ago and they wore on the outsides....he either thinks that or simply my alignments off...and this axle was invlved in a roll over (it rolled twice).. any input?!

KarlVP · Jun 11, 2007

Pull the shafts and look through the tubes. If you can't see from one side to the other, or it looks funny, your housing is bent.

A VERY common problem on the D30 front ends.

blackdoutxj · Jun 11, 2007

will it make cluking noise if i turn of hit a bump hard?!

KarlVP · Jun 11, 2007

blackdoutxj said:
will it make cluking noise if i turn of hit a bump hard?!

Maybe. But there are lots of things that can do that.

It could be that your unit bearings are just worn out.

lawsoncl · Jun 11, 2007

All the bent D30 housings I've seen were bowed down in the middle, which would tilt the tires in. Have you tried the obvious check of putting a level across the face of the tires? I'm betting your problem is just toe-in alignment which you can check with a tape measure. You can also measure the distance from the ground to the center and ends of the house too.

blackdoutxj · Jun 11, 2007

KarlVP said:
Maybe. But there are lots of things that can do that.

It could be that your unit bearings are just worn out.

ah ya it prolly is because the guy i got it from NEVER did anything to it... when i got i had to replace the u-joints, and the hubs, and im dam sure the bearings are dead...it had over 230000+ miles on it...

blackdoutxj · Jun 11, 2007

lawsoncl said:
All the bent D30 housings I've seen were bowed down in the middle, which would tilt the tires in. Have you tried the obvious check of putting a level across the face of the tires? I'm betting your problem is just toe-in alignment which you can check with a tape measure. You can also measure the distance from the ground to the center and ends of the house too.

mmm ya my tires are wearin on the outside... and i kno its really had to see(if it was bent), but the axle looks to be striaght to.. theres was no cracks or anything of the unusal sort befor i put it in...o and how do u check that with a tape measure?!

RyanM · Jun 11, 2007

Sounds like your toe.

pick two specific spots on the inside of each front tire, the front measuremeant should be ~1/8" shorter than the rear measuremeatn

lawsoncl · Jun 12, 2007

blackdoutxj said:
mmm ya my tires are wearin on the outside... and i kno its really had to see(if it was bent), but the axle looks to be striaght to.. theres was no cracks or anything of the unusal sort befor i put it in...o and how do u check that with a tape measure?!

Measure the distance from the tube to the ground at the ends versus in the middle. Mine was 1/2" closer to the ground in the middle than the ends after my unintentional air time.

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