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Posted by Bill West on Sun Nov 26 15:45:34 2006, in response to Wheel Axels, posted by Fulton Frank on Sun Nov 26 08:12:36 2006. Look at the right angle gear case on an RDC truck, it’s huge, just under the diameter of the wheels. A differential would cost as much as a traction motor to buy and maintain. More importantly, as the noise is the flanges and not the tread taper/difference in wheel turning radius a split axle wouldn’t help anyway.Also I have the impression that although solid axles are semi mass produced a long history went into learning how to forge them properly and that the production batch tests are very tough. They are the size they are because the load and fatigue on them is that high. So a split design would have to be fairly big. And as axles don’t seem to fail for less than a few million per incident I doubt if any one would easily want to rock the boat with a new concept. Bill |
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