dog bone popping out

[gofastturnleft]

I was driving my flux on a parking lot the other day 22 degrees and flipped it. When I got home I took steering apart and couldnt see anything wrong. Finally figured out the dogbone was sideways in the hub. so I fixed it. anyway I jump a small curb and it comes out again. Any ideas if I broke something that I am not seeing or advice? I am supposed to go to bmx track this weekend and this will make for a long boring day of wrenching if I cant solve this issue!:thinking:

p.s. I had to break out my 😛icco: Revo this afternoon...boy did it seem slow. but I sure missed the smell and sound of NITRO

 

[frddyj]

can you get some pics up? usually best way to detect a issue.

 

[Pope]

Could be a number of things can you take a few pics for us it may help

 

[Pope]

Love the username by the way

 

[gofastturnleft]

hard to take a pic where you can see it well but i wll try. the dog bone doesnt come all the way out just instead of being in slots its sideways in drive cup

 

[gofastturnleft]

dumb question I'm sure but how do i upload pic?

 

[gofastturnleft]

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[gofastturnleft]

wow that didnt help anyone...what exactly should i take a picture of? i cant get a very good view of the dogbone in the cup

 

[Pope]

Put a peice of fuel tubing in the outdrives

 

[gofastturnleft]

thanks...when i put it back together I cant make it come out. but i guess the force of wrecking does it.

 

[hpinitromt]

Put a peice of fuel tubing in the outdrives

this happens alot, cute a piece of fuel tubing, say about 1mm and put it way inside the cup past the slots, the round end of the will rest asgaint the tubing and keep the bone from sliding out the either end
i ve used rubber orings aslo, on my old nitromt's work like a charm

 

[Mickey]

check the lower control arm where it mounts to the bulkhead i have had 2 crack on me and couldnt see the crack. same symtoms tho. the crack was opening enough to let the dog bone pop out but i couldnt see it i had to start pulling on pieces to find it

 

[BIG DADDY 808]

Put a peice of fuel tubing in thoutdrives

+1 this works i had the same problem with my savi,problem solved. 😛eace:

 

[gofastturnleft]

well I guess I was having a noob moment when i first checked the dogbone it looked fine. this afternnoon I went to park with buddy to break in his new engine for 5t and 2 min. later I was broke. turns out the dogbone was bent slightly at the tip (round part) I tried to hammer it out to no avail. the bend was right under the ball. So he was so nice as to let me take one out of his flux and I didnt have any more problems. Should I go ahead and do the fuel tube mod anyway?

 

[gofastturnleft]

And thanks for the help guys

 

[gofastturnleft]

also what dogbones should i buy to replace? stockers or is there an upgrade?

 

[Bankrupter]

Flux has the SHD bones and it does need the orings that come stock in them, but not the tubing. That will be too much on it and increase wear and drag. was a nice mod back in the HD-std bone days

 

[MikeK1981]

I run the o-rings that came in my XL's drive cups, and no problems so far. I'm not sure what version mine are though, maybe the SHD.

 

[CTDpower]

Yep +1 on the o-ring that should have been in there from the factory. My ss diffs (heavy duty outdrives) came with a smaller o-ring that fit in them as well.

 

[texasavage]

Yep Mike you have the SHD with an XL. Only differance you have from the flux is the wider axles 😛eace:

 

[gofastturnleft]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330406582318&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT
i bought these replacement bones

 

[CTDpower]

You have an XL right?

If so, you'll need to change your axles and diff outdrives to make those bones work.

 

[gofastturnleft]

Flux...................