Salisbury HD axle flanges

[JimCT]

Salisbury axle

We broke a Salisbury axle on our '68 ambulance/camper, replaced it and the hubs with ones from GBR, and years later everything is fine. They do break! Jim

[SafeAirOne]

btw my salisbury axle is 24 spline both ends. I think they are all this way.

Yeah--I was thinking of my front axles--10 inner 24 outer. My Salisbury is 24 both ends also.

[leafsprung]

Material

I'm wondering what makes one driven hub "heavy duty" compared to others...

Better material

[109 Pretender]

Gang,
I've gotta ck w/Bill sometime this week because he has my Salisbury ready to ship and I'll mention that several of us here want to get the HD flanges. The HD units Maxi-drive had were made from better material (tougher/harder) and the broaching was very tight on the splines. I imagine GBR will build as good or better. I'll try to get specific material specs. etc. Maybe the interest will get him fired up a little faster!

I purchased an ARB back cover for the axle. It's heavy nodular cast iron - w/ a dipstick! Designed to increase case strength ( I don't need that really..) and provide built in rock protection - (I want that). Only bad thing is it's powder coated red!

Steve

[Eric W S]

Why are checking with Bill when it appears as if people are interested in having Ike make the flanges?

[109 Pretender]

Why are checking with Bill when it appears as if people are interested in having Ike make the flanges?

Well Eric,
I guess because as stated in my orig. thread, Bill is going to tool up for these sometime soon... However, I have no problem buying from Ike or whoever can make them to a high specification (better material, tighter clearancing on splines). I certainly want a set and I would commit to a set if someone wants to tool up for a small run of HD flanges.

cheers!