Using socket extensions to make an axle shaft – will it work?

okay so right here we have a car which we don't feature that often though it has been in a few videos it's front wheel drive it starts and happily runs and we've tried quite a few types of axle shafts on it right here i've got some tools of the type you'd use to repair a car this here is an extension and i've got a couple of universal joints sometimes when you run into a situation when you can't access a bolt directly that's when these come in really handy now unfortunately they sometimes break preventing you from undoing a particularly stubborn bolt and that brings us to what we'll be doing which is our own durability testing to do that wheel put together axle shafts out of all of this now we are going to be trying two types of joints one has a square while the other has a ball inside the ladder doesn't have that annoying break angle and is said to be a lot more durable whether it'll hold up or not we'll find out in a matter of seven to ten minutes let's do this [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] using socket extensions to make an axle shaft will it work translation and voice over by bmi russian all right so look here we've put together version 1.0 with the basic joints that have the square the axle shaft itself is made of extensions while the unis replaced the cv joints now as we all know the outer joint is the one that sits in place firmly it's a bit of a different story with the inner one and so in our case it required a bit of modification to get to work you see the inner cv joint has quite a lot of movement to it with the axle shaft going up down left right coupled with the uni joint you can only imagine what sort of hot mess that's going to make for it's going to be all over the place and so with that in mind we have made a bleed i mean a plate which we drilled a few holes into we basically made sure that everything is sitting on a firm axis and would only be able to move from side to side because we all know that an axle shaft is going to change in length when you're going over bumps and bottles and the inner joint is what compensates for those variations in length in our case the tripod bearing can slide around inside the housing [Music] but we've made it so that it can only do so from side to side the plate we've installed is preventing it from assuming any sort of angle it's the same setup on the other side as well and this one as you can see is a lot shorter resulting in some dramatic angles but then the car is on a lift it'll be nice and level once we get the car back on the ground man i really hope these joints do all right anybody who has any experience wrenching knows full well that these don't work at all angles but the thing that bothers me the most is that well when a bolt gets really stubborn and when it's located in some tricky spot on top of that where you literally cannot access it without using a universal joint it sometimes happens that they break as a matter of fact breaking one of these anyway everything is ready we can now set the car down see how these axle shafts behave under load and head out to do some testing [Music] all right let's go easy does it [Music] will it make it yeah we seem to be all right get out of the way dog great the car drives it's doing pretty well wow these uni joints are coping just fine look at that the car is happily scooting along very nice and i jinxed it as soon as i went for a second things went south but what exactly happened i know it popped out apparently there was some binding and the weld fell apart we applied a few tiny spot welds to prevent this exact thing from happening no well if a few tiny spots aren't enough we'll just have to be a bit more thorough let's get to work okay we've done a few quick repairs it's all good now obviously the factory axle shaft for a lot is going to be way more robust but let's see how these do i can already feel a bit of binding happening no worries i guess hey at the end of the day the car is moving and quite happily at that it's quite nice i don't get why it's tugging the wheel but otherwise we're doing all right cornering we're mid corner still turning i've driven into the grass but no biggie we are on our way okay well we didn't quite make the turn since i can't bring myself to go full lock now i'm gonna flip around and so far this is going very well i'm starting to get pretty confident even i'm no longer being as gentle with the clutch allowing myself more rapid movements okay now i'm gonna try [Music] going for a second gear one more time there we are here we are moving along in a second wait who is that and that's a wrap i heard something falling out once again in second gear now the extension is popped out yes or crying out loud so here's the situation this obviously isn't your typical ferrous metal but rather it is carbon and it seems to be a bit difficult to weld isn't that unfortunate you can see right here that the metal has snapped after which the whole thing fell apart i guess this requires some more welding you did some extra on that one right i did yeah we'll have to do the same thing here as well then the fluctuations in length are what's causing this that's the reason why they keep falling apart hey no worries we'll weld it all back together and go drive some more okay we've done some more welding to keep the extensions from popping out of their sockets it's time to do some more testing here we go i'm not as apprehensive having driven around on these a bit before twice even and it all held up fine both joints are doing all right the car drives though there is some jerkiness on the steering wheel for some reason my guess would be that those tiny squares are doing something weird i mean so far so good but the wheel is getting yanked from my hands which is a bit of a bummer yeah no sweat now i'm gonna try did we break something the uni snapped really turn to pieces you're kidding see for yourself oh holy cow so as soon as i begin to back up so this happened it didn't even seem to be working at overly dramatic angles they were pretty modest i'd even say okay so this is the position it was in yet still it is unfortunate but we've only driven like 150 meters you know what i think it's time for us to try those uni joints with the balls in them all right let's do this [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] and now it's time to test these ball based joints and see which ones are better in terms of their reliability okay let's go okay first steps here we go well it is capable of driving straight we're moving but here's what i want to find out can it turn okay here we are carefully turning no need to rush i am afraid to go too wide so i guess i won't for the time being given that this is a shakedown steering wheel is no longer jerking around that's a good thing back going forward the wheel was being yanked around with the old joints but that is no longer the case i can even let go of it i mean it is moving around because of the bumps obviously what's that squealing noise no we must have forgotten to lubricate them we'll fix that no worries the car is moving okay now i have jerky nose why though perhaps because of the additional load when i'm on throttle i mean of course the load is going to increase okay let me flip around now i hear a crunching noise but why it appeared as soon as i began turning right i'm guessing the shorter axle shaft is at maximum angle in terms of the operating range of the joint uh-huh okay i've carefully turned around we really should have greased up the ball joints let's do that once i get back to the garage is the steering too heavy i can hear him squealing driving forward hey it's moving with nary an issue before i was having problems when changing the second here i am in second and we are golden we are doing very well now i'm gonna why do i smell burning wood fantastic okay where is the grease guy i smell burning wood are we running something wooden yeah the brakes oh it's still on wooden brakes and here i am i was wondering why the brakes were so bad turns out it's still running wooden brakes here we go very nice we are moving i mean we really only saw issues either when backing up or when i went for a second okay i'm gonna find a good spot like this one where i'll flip around and try going a bit faster okay that's first pedal to the metal let's go sensational oh man that wonderful smell of wood under breaking and i see smoke you want to know why because we are running wooden brakes on this thing i completely forgot about them hey it is a pleasant smell like somebody is smoking something yeah this is what i call a decidedly positive result i mean just look at how much more stress these ball-based universal joints are capable of enduring i mean this is a car no less okay now i suggest as always going full g54 in other words i mean we didn't even get to this part on the old joints with them falling apart prematurely [Music] no dice did i break it did i break the joint the ball i am i busted the ball failure oh well okay so here's where we're at with this the ball joint fell apart turned out to be too weak however this time things are a bit different if the old joint with the square snapped at the axis here it's the complete opposite situation look here the axis is still in place oh wow i had no idea the balls were spring-loaded anyway so no some some the ball itself which is located on the axis it has grenades now obviously this isn't regular metal it's a hardcore alloy but the ball has fallen apart though everything else is still intact what's cool is that the car was moving just fine on these joints i wasn't experiencing any trouble in first or second even when i was going uphill it was still good they were able to cope with enormous load as for these joints well they're nice and everything but they are not nearly as durable as the ones with the balls those proved to be way more reliable also i'm sure all of you know that when you go a bit too far with the angle on these the tabs come into contact with each other and you get a sort of jerky motion when you work the wrench not to mention it wants to straighten out constantly we saw that very thing occur on the car when the steering wheel was moving around anyway so at the end of the day the second joint type is the one to go with let's not forget that the torque from the motor especially in any of the lower gears is going to be somewhat higher compared to your own strength via an extension or to a rattle gun it'll take you for one hell of a spin okay so you saw it all for yourselves i don't have much more to say the experiment was a tremendous success we saw all of this in action hopefully these don't get any more expensive wouldn't want that to happen right anyway guys you saw it all for yourselves with your own eyes watch us subscribe send in your suggestions comment give us a big thumbs up all right catch you later

Channel: Garage 54

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Length: 20min 35sec (1235 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 13 2022