breaking axels - Page 2

nar · June 2nd, 2010, 01:42 AM

Clicking from the CV part just like the last one did before it snapped the cage apart. Inner I think last time, hard to tell where it is from the sound. I may finally have time soon to pull the front end out and tear it down to see what's wrong in it. I was tempted to just find another entire diff and swap them and rebuild mine when I had time. Some reason all the guys parting brutes out on ebay never have front diffs or rear axles, what does that tell you? I see tons new front axles on there, yet my front diff breaks before the axles there. Odd.

bruteboy · June 13th, 2010, 08:37 PM

i think its the tires man the mud gear have really good surface area an when you are riding to hard in mud. when you come out of a mud hole dont hold down the throttle wide open of you will break axles with stockers just ease out. do you ride on the rode?

BrianMc · June 14th, 2010, 11:58 AM

with radial XTR's on my quad I twisted both rear axles at the same time. the shafts looked like candy canes. my buddy with xtr's went threw 5 axles or something like that before he sold the brute, and bought a can am 800, which he sold also due to weak parts

nar · June 15th, 2010, 02:08 AM

I don't go in a lot of mud, at least not the nasty deep stuff the guys down south call mud. I mostly ride it around the farm, dirt roads and fields. I do wheelie it a lot though. My brother has 25 inch XTRs on his and it's fine so far. The mud gear is definately a much heavier tire than the XTR. I hate that about them, but on the other hand I can ride over anything without fear of a flat, been over so much nasty stuff that ruined stock tires and even poked the XTRs. You can really tell the weight difference when I ride my brother's and damn near flip it over it's so easy to pull up compared to mine.

I probably just ride it too hard, out of our group me and another guy rode motorcross bikes before and we ride much harder than everyone else we ride with.

BrianMc · June 15th, 2010, 11:02 AM

xtr's are the worst tires for durability in my opinion..there was never a day that i didnt have a flat tire when i had them. good traction, but overall a very crappy tire.