6WD questions

[JesseK]

Originally Posted by AdamHeard

We have a fixed drop, been running .125" drop on ~4" wheeels has served us well.




Universally saying X size is required isn't the greatest thing to do.

We had a prototype cantilever drive with 3/8" axles perform and last just fine, we however do 1/2" axles with 7/16" hex on our comp for geometry reasons.

Rather than being universal, I meant to imply my own conclusions from my own experience. I feel that it is simply confusing to someone with a question when people respond with (in a Brian from Family Guy voice) "it depends, and here are some vague anecdotes of reason from which you cannot possible derive a logical conclusion".

Additionally, I was trying to provide context as well. Very different conclusions are drawn from the statements '1/2" cantilevered axles didn't hold up in our experiments' versus '3/8" cantilevered axles are fine for our prototypes'. Indeed, the original post didn't have anything about the context of competition or extreme environments, however it is implied by the fact that there's a good chance a third party reader who arrives at this post via search will take the information as fact during the build season (regardless of how illogical that can be, does anyone really have time to 'experiment' during the build season?).