More photos can be found here:

http://www.jeeps-offroad.com/showthread.php?t=15970



"Pi-Eyed Piper" <notta@hello.com> wrote in message
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> And you dont notice for a mile or so. Someone have the full story and more
> pics??
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> http://www.hudsonhawk.net/rip/rip1.jpg
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I don't think you can call it a design "flaw", when it is intentionally
designed that way to save money. Jeep isn't the only manufacturer to use
this trick, either.

Earle

"Doug" <pigdos@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Would this be called a design flaw w/Dana 35's? What are better rear axles
> the Dana 44's?
>
> --
> there is no .sig
> "L.W. ("ßill") ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
> news:42C439EB.D7302CEB@***.net...
> > It's the puny Dana 35c, and the only thing holding in their axles
> > in is a little "C" clip which apparently fell out:
> > http://----------.com/dana35c/dana35cclip.jpg He probably caught a wheel
> > on an island gassing his motorhome.
> > God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O
> > mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
> >
> > Doug wrote:
> >>
> >> It looked to me like in that first pic the gas tank had already
contacted
> >> the ground. What exactly caused this? Why did the wheels come off the
> >> axle?
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I don't think you can call it a design "flaw", when it is intentionally
designed that way to save money. Jeep isn't the only manufacturer to use
this trick, either.

Earle

"Doug" <pigdos@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:493xe.35478$J12.20136@newssvr14.news.prodigy. com...
> Would this be called a design flaw w/Dana 35's? What are better rear axles
> the Dana 44's?
>
> --
> there is no .sig
> "L.W. ("ßill") ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
> news:42C439EB.D7302CEB@***.net...
> > It's the puny Dana 35c, and the only thing holding in their axles
> > in is a little "C" clip which apparently fell out:
> > http://----------.com/dana35c/dana35cclip.jpg He probably caught a wheel
> > on an island gassing his motorhome.
> > God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O
> > mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
> >
> > Doug wrote:
> >>
> >> It looked to me like in that first pic the gas tank had already
contacted
> >> the ground. What exactly caused this? Why did the wheels come off the
> >> axle?
>
>

 

I don't think you can call it a design "flaw", when it is intentionally
designed that way to save money. Jeep isn't the only manufacturer to use
this trick, either.

Earle

"Doug" <pigdos@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:493xe.35478$J12.20136@newssvr14.news.prodigy. com...
> Would this be called a design flaw w/Dana 35's? What are better rear axles
> the Dana 44's?
>
> --
> there is no .sig
> "L.W. ("ßill") ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
> news:42C439EB.D7302CEB@***.net...
> > It's the puny Dana 35c, and the only thing holding in their axles
> > in is a little "C" clip which apparently fell out:
> > http://----------.com/dana35c/dana35cclip.jpg He probably caught a wheel
> > on an island gassing his motorhome.
> > God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O
> > mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
> >
> > Doug wrote:
> >>
> >> It looked to me like in that first pic the gas tank had already
contacted
> >> the ground. What exactly caused this? Why did the wheels come off the
> >> axle?
>
>

 

I don't think you can call it a design "flaw", when it is intentionally
designed that way to save money. Jeep isn't the only manufacturer to use
this trick, either.

Earle

"Doug" <pigdos@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:493xe.35478$J12.20136@newssvr14.news.prodigy. com...
> Would this be called a design flaw w/Dana 35's? What are better rear axles
> the Dana 44's?
>
> --
> there is no .sig
> "L.W. ("ßill") ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
> news:42C439EB.D7302CEB@***.net...
> > It's the puny Dana 35c, and the only thing holding in their axles
> > in is a little "C" clip which apparently fell out:
> > http://----------.com/dana35c/dana35cclip.jpg He probably caught a wheel
> > on an island gassing his motorhome.
> > God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O
> > mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
> >
> > Doug wrote:
> >>
> >> It looked to me like in that first pic the gas tank had already
contacted
> >> the ground. What exactly caused this? Why did the wheels come off the
> >> axle?
>
>

 

I was in Utah last summer looking at petroglyphs, and a diesel pusher came
in pulling a heavily modified TJ with smoking front tires. Turns out one of
the family members had locked the column at the last stop, and the front
tires were down to the cords, but the rears looked new. He said he didn't
feel a thing. You have to check on things, and if you have passengers, have
them watch the towed vehicle thru a few turns.

--
Paul Calman, Hathaway Pines, California

 

I was in Utah last summer looking at petroglyphs, and a diesel pusher came
in pulling a heavily modified TJ with smoking front tires. Turns out one of
the family members had locked the column at the last stop, and the front
tires were down to the cords, but the rears looked new. He said he didn't
feel a thing. You have to check on things, and if you have passengers, have
them watch the towed vehicle thru a few turns.

--
Paul Calman, Hathaway Pines, California

 

I was in Utah last summer looking at petroglyphs, and a diesel pusher came
in pulling a heavily modified TJ with smoking front tires. Turns out one of
the family members had locked the column at the last stop, and the front
tires were down to the cords, but the rears looked new. He said he didn't
feel a thing. You have to check on things, and if you have passengers, have
them watch the towed vehicle thru a few turns.

--
Paul Calman, Hathaway Pines, California

 

I was in Utah last summer looking at petroglyphs, and a diesel pusher came
in pulling a heavily modified TJ with smoking front tires. Turns out one of
the family members had locked the column at the last stop, and the front
tires were down to the cords, but the rears looked new. He said he didn't
feel a thing. You have to check on things, and if you have passengers, have
them watch the towed vehicle thru a few turns.

--
Paul Calman, Hathaway Pines, California

 

Yes, but Daimler was the only one stupid enough to put an seven and
a half inch ring gear in the rear of a passenger car, even the front
wheel drive rice burners use equivalent of a Dana 44 eight and a half
inch.
God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O
mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/

Earle Horton wrote:
>
> I don't think you can call it a design "flaw", when it is intentionally
> designed that way to save money. Jeep isn't the only manufacturer to use
> this trick, either.
>
> Earle