I am not sure if this has been covered before or not as I am new here BUT I recently purchased a 98 max II from my dad and decided to beef up the axles. I found that 1-1/4" sch 80 seamless pipe is a perfect pressed on fit over the outside of the stock axles. I also added 3 gussets to the back side of the flange welded to the new outer sleeve. Cheap and easy upgrade to prevent bending and breaking. No idea how to add pictures but I have some for anyone interested. Zach J.
Go on over to the gallery tab of the website, there, Mike has posted a thread on uploading pictures. I have to look at it every time I want to upload one.
Would love to see the upgrade you've done. Pulling my max 2 apart again pretty soon, might end up doing what you've figured out.
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Then two photos are uploaded into the max section. Let me know if you have any questions.
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I can't quite see in the pics but were they solid axles before you sleeved them? Looks like a good idea and well executed.
Both of these were solid axles aready but it would work on either solid or the tube axles. Thanks!
Nice, I like that.
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There is another design I first came up with. May be more accessible to most cause all you would need is some 1/4" steel flat stock. I think this will hold up just the same BUT still swapped both front axles to my sleeved and gussets design. Hope this helps. Also have a picture posted now of the axles installed.
Great idea. How tight of a press fit is it? Did you have to warm up the sleeve/pipe ?
What it lacks in ground clearance it makes up for with traction.
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