CRUISE BREAKS!!

What's that old song? "three wheels on my wagon and I'm still rolling along".

Your probably lucky the last two studs held, thye would have been taking a hell of a load.

Hi Davoe I used to work for a mining company in the north of WA and at one stage we started to do the same as you on all of our inpitters (term used for the vechals used in a pitt) and we received an memo stating it was caused by putting the wrong spare tyres on the wrong utes , we were using cruisers and patrols yes I know that the rims fit but we were told there was a fraction of a differance in the stud holes and this was chewing the studs of . I am going to be quite interested in the replyes to this because there was a lot of conjector on whether this was a lot of bull or it came from someone who knew what they were talking about . Cheers Catchy snr

Hi Davoe, I have had this happen to me before & from experience I have found that the first indication you get that an axle housing stud is loose or broken is the tell tale sign of oil weeping around the axle flange gasket. The most common cause apart from overload is that the studs have not been tensioned to the correct torque (35Nm) when maintenace has been carried out. The cone washers are there to make sure there is no movement between the stud & the axle. I carry a spare set of studs plus a set of cone washers as well. Usually if you find one broken, there is a bit of it protruding out of where the cone washer sits & can easily removed by hand otherwise an 'Easyout' (broken stud remover) is required. As you mentioned the 78 & 79 series improved on this by putting in larger diameter studs, however you can modify your axle housing to the larger size studs by using the 100 series axle housings & getting your axle stud holes machined to suit the larger studs. I believe there is another modification on the market where extra dowell pins are fitted between the stud positions to alleviate the load on the studs. Cheers.

Davoe,

My experience with breakage of studs, and the continual breakage of studs on the rear diff of the mostly unstoppable cruiser, is that the rear wheel bearings will be stuffed.

We were continually breaking studs, we would check wheels, axles, studs, nuts, and even the bearings themselves, and all seemed ok. It is only when we replaced the bearings that the studs stopped breaking.

Mic

Davoe, you have used and I quote "Was out at Mt Monger today bushbashing off the tracks", well if this is true then you got your just deserts. "Bushbashing" and "off the tracks" gives us responsible 4wd owners a bad name and does nothing but continues to close us out of areas.

Hi Davoe I used to work for Hamersley Iron in Tom Price started in 89 , they had quite a lot of Patrols utes and duel cabs , they were allright I suppose but they did have a lot of plastic in them and with all the rough treatment the grill would be the first thing you would see hanging out of them then other bits and pieces would crack or fall of them but they were as reliable as the tojos . Cheers Catchy snr

UUUUUMMMMM....this must be a common tojo problem hey..never herd of it happening to the bullet proof patrols.....and ah ROD W..stop being a do gooder..we all have fun out bush..( doing some bush bashing ) it's just a saying mate