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shewtro22

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I was just out bashing my savage and i started pulling some crazy donuts, then i realized it was because i was getting no power to my front wheels, then no power to any wheels. I looked inside the diffs, all of the gears have all of there teeth, all of the conecting rods between the diffs and the wheel are intact, when i spin the wheels and then put on the brakes, the diffs stop turning but the wheels dont, I'm not really sure whats wrong i need some help.
 
Do you have cvd's or bones?

If you have cvd's, you may have lost the pins that hold them together at the tires. Or, you have completely shredded all of your wheel hex's as this is a common problem with stock savage rims. I haven't had the pleasure of this, I run stock maxx rims on my sav.
 
Sounds to me like you broke the drive pins behind the wheel hubs. Or stipped the wheel hubs in the wheel.
 
I have whatever comes stock with the savage, i think bones. Ill check the wheels to see if theyre stripped.


EDIT: this is weird, i just went out and tried it again, one of the wheels was slightly loose but i tightened all of them and now it works perfectly, it did this along time ago and just like this time, it fixed it self some how. It just gets not power to the wheels at all, none of the wheels were stripped and they were all on enough to have been getting power. Would this be something that doing the 4 spider diff mod would help??
 
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Did you take the wheels total off the truck?
If not, do it. Then look at the hex in the center of the wheel, where the nut sits.
See if they are rounded out.
If thats ok, see if you still have the pins that keep the hex from spinning.
 
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