knuckles - rediculus to cut off?

XJ_ranger · Jun 7, 2005

ok, so i am out there grinding away, and take off the weld and make the surfaces flat on my hp44

then cut a little into the axle tube, and a little into the knuckle and have about 1/8" into both the tube and the knuckle where they come together, and they arent budging

anything else that i should be doing? remove more material?

i know on toy front axles there are rosette welds, but i dont see any on here...

im not too worried about cutting into the 1/2" wall tube, but enough that i wanted to ask...

thanks
-Ranger

BrettM · Jun 7, 2005

keep going until you see the crack all the way around. occasionally hitting it with a hammer and some WD40 helps in seeing the crack. it always seems like you're going too deep.

JeepFreak21 · Jun 7, 2005

BrettM said:
keep going until you see the crack all the way around. occasionally hitting it with a hammer and some WD40 helps in seeing the crack. it always seems like you're going too deep.

Yeah, make sure you can follow the crack all the way around. Then pound like hell. You'll need a pretty big hammer!
Billy

XTrmXJ · Jun 7, 2005

JeepFreak21 said:
Yeah, make sure you can follow the crack all the way around. Then pound like hell. You'll need a pretty big hammer!
Billy

HAHAHAHAHA..... I hope you ment that as a joke

thisfirstlove · Jun 7, 2005

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA....i hope he didnt mean it as a joke

CRASH · Jun 7, 2005

XTrmXJ said:
HAHAHAHAHA..... I hope you ment that as a joke

:huh:

MDMIKE · Jun 7, 2005

Once you see the crack, throw some heat to it if possible and get to beating the s#it out of it. Once it starts to turn, you're in good shape. Have fun, just when you're about to give up, it'll finally start to move.

MIke

sintax · Jun 7, 2005

CRASH said:
:huh:

You cant hit metal with a hammer man....you might break something!!!!

Lawn Cher' · Jun 7, 2005

XTrmXJ said:
HAHAHAHAHA..... I hope you ment that as a joke

"Huh huh huh. Hey Beavis, he said crack."

"Heh Heh. Yeah Butthead, he's pounding that crack with a big hammer!"

"That's cool."

sintax · Jun 7, 2005

hahah nice...here i am thinking about jeeps when this is now a den topic

I've never been much of a crack pounder.

53guy · Nov 19, 2006

Ok, sorry to bring up a dead thread, but I'm working on the same thing at the moment. Found the crack, beating the hell out of it, but cant get the C's to rotate. I haven't tried heating it yet, got too pissed off and called it quits, but I ended up cracking the concrete floor from beating the C's. When you all suggest heating, you're talking only the C's, correct? Any other tips? What/how do you suggest welding? Are the c's cast steel or cast iron?

Highlander · Nov 19, 2006

I would say heat the c's and cool the tubes!!!

Dry ice on the tubes would probably work great!!!

cal · Nov 19, 2006

When I did the knuckles on my d30, I had to use a 8 pound sledgehammer. a 3 pound 18" handle hammer would not get the job done.

BrettM · Nov 19, 2006

I used a big sledge, on a 3(ish) foot handle.

gotta love google image search, i'm sure I looked like this except without the camo:

(ps, if you're shortening the axle, just chop the whole tube off near the end and then free the C by sawzalling the tube from the inside. I believe CRASH did this in his D44 writeup)

53guy · Nov 19, 2006

Not shortening it as it's a waggy 44, so I'll try and find some dry ice. I might just end up using regular ice, but we'll find a way. I just got frustrated last night beating on it until the floor broke. We'll get it done somehow!

nhrocker · Nov 19, 2006

53guy said:
Not shortening it as it's a waggy 44, so I'll try and find some dry ice. I might just end up using regular ice, but we'll find a way. I just got frustrated last night beating on it until the floor broke. We'll get it done somehow!

Try looking at medical supply companies for dry ice. I've gotten it through a local one with relative ease. They use it for transport of temperature sensitive materials, so they will usually have some of it on hand at all times.

The other thing you could look for through chemical supply companies or schools with chem programs is liquefied nitrogen. That would cool it down some, too.

Ramsey · Nov 19, 2006

i know krogers here sells dry ice

CanMan · Nov 19, 2006

Safeway sells dry ice, at least the ones around here do. Try a welding store, or a place where you fill your argon, propane, ect...

53guy · Nov 20, 2006

sweet, I'll be calling around. wont be able to work on it at all until friday anyhow. how much would the dry ice cost round about?

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