EA81 rear axles

[mellow65]

I swear I read on here (but can't find again) that they no longer make rear axles for the 4x4 ea81s anymore. is that true?

 

What do you do then? can you use ea82 axles? That's kind of a bummer if they don't make them anymore. I mean true they aren't under a lot of stress but sometimes you just need to replace them.

 

what are you supposed to do.

[mikeshoup]

Of course EA81 Rear axles are still made. I think the comment was referring to only one manufacturer no longer making them.

[Phizinza]

can you use ea82 axles?

Nope, too long by about 2" or so.

 

I always just go buy axles at the wreckers. They seem to last long enough.

[GeneralDisorder]

Rear axles, unlike front axles, are 100% rebuildable with no special tools. There's many companies that will sell you the joint components. The shafts themselves never wear out, only the joints. So you just buy new joint sets and build your own. Or have cvaxles.com make you some if you are really, really lazy. I'm sure MWE would make them too. I use the inner rear joints from EA82's as they are deeper than stock and allow more suspension flex. Rockford CV makes the joint components and boots - I've heard they are a good source for that sort of thing.

 

Check out my write up on the EA81 rear axles:

 

http://home.comcast.net/~trilinear/axle_rebuilding.html

 

I believe what you read is that another member ordered some GCK rear's through autozone, and due to an error in Autozone's computer system received front's instead. The error was not that GCK "no longer" makes them. The error was that GCK NEVER made them, and someone doing the cataloging assumed that fronts and rears are the same. The error is 100% autozone's, and had nothing to do with GCK as they don't make rear's, and never have.

 

GD

[mellow65]

OOooooooOOooooh

 

well thats good.

 

thanks for the info

[RenaissanceMan]

Go with the Wolf Enterprises axles (MWE) You wont be sorry at all!!! I have 2 sets of his axles and they are the best axles I have ever bought. When you send them he talks to you over the phone, and explains exactly what he's replacing with new OEM parts, or aftermarket, or machining, etc. in the end you pay roughly an extra $70 for a pair of axles including shipping vs. buying a set at the local auto parts store. Getting the axles for the gen 1's is getting real hard, but for him its no problem. A++ for MWE

 

(just my 2 cents)

-Mike

[GeneralDisorder]

We're talking about REAR axles here. Why anyone that owns enough tools to remove a rear axle from the car would bother having someone else rebuild them is beyond me. They are simple, and the joint components are easily obtained for much, much less than the cost to have them rebuilt.

 

GD