On 1 Feb 2003 at 1:53, Gbrovers@aol.com wrote:
>
> African Paul
> I accidentally deleted your respose to my note and wanted to comment on
> it. Can you resend it to the list.
On 30 Jan 2003 at 13:15, Gbrovers@aol.com wrote:
> A quick comment on welding flanges to axles. Personally I wouldn't do it
> unless I had an axle/flange combo that had excessive wear and I was just
> trying to bodge back together as a temporary fix. The problem with welding
> heat treated parts together is that you effect the heat treatment on the
> existing parts and now you have a weld that is totally different hardness.
> This creates serious stress risers and this is where the stress cracks will
> eventually develop and hence this is the point where the axle will eventually
> fail.
Sorry, Bill, but nonsense! The parts are immobilised. All you are preventing is the couple of
thou of movement between the splines. The welded joint takes no other stress at all.
It's sooo easy! You pop the caps off (in situ, mind you - to preserve perfect alignment with
the diff-side splines), bevel the end of the sideshaft where it protrudes,you pre-heat with a
blowtorch, tackweld around the circumference by rotating the jacked up wheel, then run a
nice seam all around. Dress it off and paint.
As a matter of fact I've just got finished with a major centre diff and rear diff carrier rebuild on
my 84 110 (we went on a clonk search, and this is the only drivetrain clonk left), and will be
doing the above later this morning. I do not know of a welded drive flange/sideshaft combo
that has ever failed.
OTOH I dress my front brake disks with an angle grinder with the vehicle jacked up and the
engine running in 4th gear =8-{O}
Regards
Paul Oxley
AfricanAdrenalin.com
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