Its also Yukon...But it’s your money, not mine. You’ll be happy either way.
Would it be a good idea to replace my Dana 30 axle shafts with chromoly?
- Thread starter Eddie Greenlee
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What’s the overall consensus on the Yukon brand shafts? I thought it’s a reputable brand. But I’m only familiar with their name from a gearing standpoint. Aren’t all chromoly shafts 4340 the same other than brand name and warranty? Am I missing something?
Their fit and finish varies. They ship them from overseas. It’s cheap and bottom barrel stuff. But people love that kind of shit. Lots of folks have no issues running their stuff for the most part.
To be transparent, I just choose to support other businesses that support local domestic manufacturing.
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No. There are lots of varying factors out there that make some brands better than others.
Here is a Revolution 1350 shaft compared to a typical 5-760x cromoly and 5-760x stock
The Revolution shafts use a Spicer 5-7166x u-joint which is a stock size joint for a JK. So replacement u-joints are highly ubiquitous, even more so than the 5-760x
on there upper line (which is yukon) it a limited lifetime.
they have another line that like 5 year i think.
The Dutchman, was next in line on pricing and they are made in the states. but they do charge for shipping and the others did not.
so i have contacted
Dutchman
Randy's world wide
East Coast Gear Supply
Revolution Gear and Axle
Both Randy's and ECGS are selling yukon, they have two price lines.
Dutchman makes their own and has a overseas verson.
Revolution Gear has both domestic and overseas
the Biggest news is that Dutchman said it really would not increase the strength of my axle very much because its still 27 spline.. and i would be better off finding a dana 44 or a dana 60. SO that went from 700.00 to 5000.00 gees.
Dutchman
Randy's world wide
East Coast Gear Supply
Revolution Gear and Axle
Both Randy's and ECGS are selling yukon, they have two price lines.
Dutchman makes their own and has a overseas verson.
Revolution Gear has both domestic and overseas
the Biggest news is that Dutchman said it really would not increase the strength of my axle very much because its still 27 spline.. and i would be better off finding a dana 44 or a dana 60. SO that went from 700.00 to 5000.00 gees.
I just recently went with Yukon. I really wanted to go with Revolution but I sent them 3 different e-mails asking questions over a period of 5 weeks and didn't get anything back from them. Unless you are getting the Revolution 1350 they are also made overseas.
The Yukon looks to be built pretty nice. I've had G2 in the past and think the Yukons had a better-looking finishing on them.
The Yukon looks to be built pretty nice. I've had G2 in the past and think the Yukons had a better-looking finishing on them.
I just installed Yukon axles last week in my front Dana 30. I also contacted revolution beforehand and they weren’t due to get any of the overseas made axles anytime soon and the domestic set was roughly $1000 which it a lot more than I’m willing to spend. I picked up the Yukon set off amazon warehouse for $385 (normally $455 full price) which is probably the only reason I pulled the trigger rather quickly. I run 33s and do mild wheeling on rocks (on the rare occasions I go to rausch creek) so I was good going that route. It’s still an upgrade over stock axles.
After breaking my first TJ's front Dana 30 axle shaft on Sledgehammer in Johnson Valley, I replaced both sides with 4340 27 spline shafts from Warn. No more breakages after that.
Absolutely. You can break the ears on 33’s with front stock Dana 30 shafts, so you’re in real danger of losing a shaft. Of course, you could wait till one breaks and do a trail fix, drive home, then order up 4340’s. That’s what I did.
if you’re concerned about 27 spline not being strong enough why not bump it up to 30 spline in your existing housing, it’ll be cheaper than swapping axles most likely, & for all practical purposes won’t be any more likely to fail than a TJ-44
or roll with what you have until it breaks, which it may not do, ever
I like that reasoning. After you have done everything to prepair for trail rides (over in Mississippi) you never know the weakest link till something brakes . Still think ill order a set of chromoly axle shafts and be a little more prepaired.
I'm in the overkill camp too, we can't prevent all negative eventualities but we can reduce their likelihood. The chromoly 27 spline shafts will be stronger than your stock ones regardless of what the guy at the shop said, maybe enough for your purposes. Not sure if anyone above suggested it but you can always tote around your stock ones as spares, provided of course you're competent to do that sort of trail repair. Me, I could do the repair but probably over the course of a week in my garage with a how-to youtube video playing on a constant loop
Hey you mentioned amazon warehouse. Tell me what that is , if not the same as just Amazon.
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