I'm dropping it off at your house to do it correctly LOL! But in all seriousness I will pop in that new axle and learn how to rebuild a CV joint or just add more grease whatever it takes and throw it in the back of the truck!
Funny this came up..... Just put All Ball rear axles in and ran them this weekend along with my buddies. After we got back I checked his cv temp to the touch compared to mine, and wow what a difference. Mine would sizzle when hit with water. I remember you had a similar situation with some rhinos. Whatever became of that?
I’m still running the second set they sent me. They still get hot.. so I said, “f*** it and ride!” I may be pulling my lift so it will be interesting to see if they quit after the angle change.
I'm in the same boat with my lift. Really don't want to pull it off! I'm going to see if I can drop it a little with the preload adjustment on my shocks, see if that helps. If not may just go back with stock axles. There getting hot enough now I don't trust them.
I had the same thing happen to a driver side rear last Summer. Still not sure how the grease was getting out. I wonder how common of an occurrence this is
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I'm sure its a combination of aggressive driving or high speed and the lift. I'm going to drop the preload. I won't give up the lift, it's been to valuable for me. I'd rather fix a boot every 2500 miles than have a polaris go through something I got stuck in!I had the same thing happen to a driver side rear last Summer. Still not sure how the grease was getting out. I wonder how common of an occurrence this is
Yeah SATV 3 inch and 30s. I compared the heat after a back country road trip about 10 miles and a speed of around 35 mph. My buddies unit has a 2 1/2" lift with stock axles and 28s. Like JTW mentioned never noticed the heat with stock axles????
Stock axles didn’t get hot.. I even took off an aftermarket and put a spare (used) stock in just to get a temp reading.
I'm not very educated in all of this but got some feedback from a couple friends. They mentioned the stock axles having smaller bearings allowing more movement or angle vs the aftermarket axles with the larger bearings. It seems to hold some truth seeing this problem with both Rhino and All Ball axles.
Curious, what was the temp difference between stock and aftermarket?
100 plus degrees... Difference!
Well, some of the things the aftermarket’s advertise is running cooler, increased articulation and strength! But with all that said... they were great to work with! I’d buy them again despite them running a bit hot. I’m curious how they’ll read now that I’ve put some more miles on them. And again... the only time I noticed the heat was running full speed blacktop.
