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[rexy]

So I pulled the axles out of the LJ to check the spline count before I chased up a ratio change centre and found this:

 

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Not good!

 

 

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Terrible!

 

Only a few more hard launches left in it.

 

Has anybody recently used someone in Melbourne to do a centre and supply high strength axles?

 

Car is about 440hp, T350, 4K converter and runs drag radials.

[yel327]

I’ve had that happen before with shortened HQ axles to LH length. No heat treatment hence spline bend. What I mean is they look like shortened axles.
You could probably order axles from anywhere in Australia that uses quality US made axles.

[RallyRed]

Have sourced a few billet fine spline axles and centres over the last few years, but not in Melbourne.

 

Last axles we got were from Altra9 in QLD......high end engineering place. ( specs done over the phone and email, post)

Been in the track car for 18m, no dramas.

[LJ RB30]

Yep I had the same problem with axles from John Taverna years ago.
No heat treatment after shortening & splines recut.
Can’t help with axles in Melbourne as I’m in Perth.
I’ve got 31spline billett’s now from final drive over here.

[RallyRed]

p.s. Andy Williams from AW Automatics runs a super quick Group nc Historic Touring car XU1. 

He does stuff with gearboxes and diffs/axles , I think. 

Ferntree Gully.

[hawk]

I used Diff king in dandenong for my diff recently. Not too bad.

My gearbox guy who sells diff and gearbox conversions also uses them for a lot of stuff.

The guys at AW automatics built my old 4 speed, I don't think they do axles sadly although may be able to point you in the right directions.