intentsrig
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You can drive with the stub shaft pulled. Just out a rag in the axle tube so you don’t loose fluid. I do wish we had locking hubs still.Also there may have been a time when live axles had a slight advantage - at least in longevity and serviceability - with a true spindle, wb hub, bearings and press-in races, and lockouts (damn ya remember those things you used to have to get out and turn?).
If nothing else these live axles of old were true full floaters and you could limp off the trail even with a shattered stub shaft, just unlock that hub and roll on.
In contrast most unit bearings need the stub shaft and axle nut torqued to hold the bearing together.
With unit bearings now being the standard everywhere, any such advantage is extinct.
Solid axle tie rod’s are still much stronger than ifs. So are the rest of the steering components. You can find multiple videos of ifs rigs hardly doing anything serious and folding the tires in. On stock size tires. Rack and pinion with 37’s are no bueno.
Also, don’t forgot about flex. Ifs has nothing on solid axles there!
IFS bronco will be a joke and huge mistake by Ford.
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