I suppose I should mention that if you run stock bearings and
hubs in a racing (and probably autocrossing, too) environment,
this is a perennial problem.
The issue isn't so much the diff, I think, but the flexing of the "hat"
of
the axle as you laterally load the car again and again. Those bearing
hubs were *never* meant to take the kind of loading we can produce
with a set of 185/60-13 Hoosiers or BFGs.
The solution, unfortunately, involves spending the money on a
set of double-bearing hubs. I have never (knock furiously on
wood) snapped or had the hat come off an axle while running
those hubs. And I just run stock rear axles, not the groovy
competition ones.
JZ
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Curt Oliver [SMTP:coliver@cyberhighway.net]
>Sent: Thursday, October 29, 1998 3:48 PM
>To: Mike Gigante
>Cc: Jeff Zurschmeide; spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
>Subject: Re: Autox Sprite Handling Questions (actually driving technique)
>
>Mike:
>
>I run a welded diff to and it is a real festival! HOWEVER... It tends to eat
>standard axles.
>
>Curt
>
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