traction bar peeling my housing back!

[DevinB]

My traction bar is starting to peel my housing apart. How would you go about fixing this? Can you just weld it back up? I knew the F8.8 axle tubes are a little thin, but not this bad!

What caused it in the first place? Bad welding?

Thanks for any help.

 

[slcpunk74]

Hard to tell from the pick but a bigger bracket that wraps the axle a bit more will always help. Give it a good grind then weld it up, just try to penitrate the tube a bit more.

 

[jevyguy]

I would weld it up nice and then tie the traction bar bracket into the the pumpkin to help distribute the torque.

 

[cuban b]

reinforcement, and spread out the load i.e. bigger brackets.

The welds are plenty strong if it's tearing the housing and not the weld.

Oh, and I'll help. . Braden and I are working on Junk at my house tomorrow if you want to come weld.

 

[Shawn]

show a pic of the other mount. There might be a binding issue.

 

[cheepin]

X2 on showing the other end along with the rest of the axle mounts.