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Rear Axle Info
« on: December 21, 2003, 10:41:25 PM »
What year did the Kick 2 doors start running the larger 26(?) spline axle shafts in the rear? I'm looking at getting another parts ride and wanted to make sure it had replacements for my 97 rear axle.

Will the new bodystyle Trackers, Vitaras and GV axle shafts work in a 97 axle?


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Re: Rear Axle Info
« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2003, 05:41:57 AM »
Hell, not all GV axles are interhangeable amongst themselves.  And no, they won't fit the Kick.

To my knowledge, Kicks always has 26 spline in the rear.  They upped to 26 spline in the front in 1996.

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Re: Rear Axle Info
« Reply #2 on: December 23, 2003, 12:48:48 PM »
Ya i think Yankee Tim is right.
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Re: Rear Axle Info
« Reply #3 on: December 23, 2003, 09:24:00 PM »
Thanks, I was thinking of the front, but am brain dead after many weeks of 70+ hours of work :P But I am quickly building the mods for Moab fund ;D
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Re: Rear Axle Info
« Reply #4 on: December 24, 2003, 07:26:42 AM »
lol  go Zig!  lata stu
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Re: Rear Axle Info
« Reply #5 on: December 24, 2003, 08:06:45 AM »
I feel like the enegizer(sp?) bunny right now, the one that finally lost charge :P 4:30 Christmas eve, 11.5 hrs and cilmbing and about 3 hrs to go >:( Damn I'm glad I have Moab as a goal, or I would of snaped by now ;)
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Re: Rear Axle Info
« Reply #6 on: December 24, 2003, 11:39:02 AM »
hey you gots to do whats ya  gots to do to have a bad ass truck.  lata stu
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Re: Rear Axle Info
« Reply #7 on: December 29, 2003, 02:28:06 PM »
Speaking of rear axles.  
How many of you folks have swapped out your stock axles to the ones that don't require the brake drum "adapter" between the tire and the axle?

More info on when 'kicks' stopped using the drum as an adapter would be nice to know.

~Nate
« Last Edit: December 29, 2003, 02:28:20 PM by natebert »
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Re: Rear Axle Info
« Reply #8 on: December 29, 2003, 02:36:27 PM »
Hey zukipilot, Did ya ever hear about the bunny that put his batterys in backwards???????
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Re: Rear Axle Info
« Reply #9 on: December 29, 2003, 03:58:54 PM »
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Speaking of rear axles.  
How many of you folks have swapped out your stock axles to the ones that don't require the brake drum "adapter" between the tire and the axle?

More info on when 'kicks' stopped using the drum as an adapter would be nice to know.

~Nate


what do you mean?  i could just be haveing a brain fart but i have never heard of them.  lata stu
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Re: Rear Axle Info
« Reply #10 on: December 29, 2003, 09:44:57 PM »
No, Tell Me, I could use a good laugh ;)
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Re: Rear Axle Info
« Reply #11 on: December 29, 2003, 09:49:45 PM »
I'm not sure about the 'adaptor', but the newer (95-98 I think) Kicks have the brakes designed so you can pull the rear axles without disesembleing the drum brakes.
Jack vehicle, remove tire, remove drum, remove 4 axle retaining nuts, slide hammer the axle out.

My 89 was the old style, so I replaced it with the rear axle out of my 97 when I did the rotation and gears.

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what do you mean?  i could just be haveing a brain fart but i have never heard of them.  lata stu

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Re: Rear Axle Info
« Reply #12 on: December 30, 2003, 05:19:46 AM »
Our 95 sidekick has the 4 axle bolts, which bolt onto the brake drum.  The drum then attachs to the tire via its lug bolts.

During last years memorial day run, Eric B was running an axle setup where the axle had the lug studs and the drum slipped over the lug studs and the tire directly attached to the axle, not via the drumb.  (make sense?)

(Those 4 axle nuts are a krappy design I'd like to get rid of)

~Nate
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Re: Rear Axle Info
« Reply #13 on: December 30, 2003, 11:19:26 AM »
ya zig my 93' rear is the same way.  and natebert you just want to set in up like a chevy, ford, toyata and so on.  where the tire/rim bolts to the axle shaft.  not the tire/rim bolts to the drum then the drum bolts to the axle shaft.  lata stu
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Re: Rear Axle Info
« Reply #14 on: December 30, 2003, 01:31:35 PM »
My 96 Tracker is set up that way.  Just like most rear drum brakes.  Axil  has the studs in it.
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