This is a configurable Solidworks 2012 model of the RC4WD Yota scale axle used on 1/10th scale radio controlled rock crawler trucks and buggies.
The front axle assembly has the steering links which are not included when you buy the axle, they are a separate kit. The axles are mostly solid models with no internal details of the differential etc.
The turning angle of the front axle I measured at approximately 30 degrees, in case you want to play with the mates in Solidworks to turn the wheels for your model.
These axles come with a nylock nut to hold the wheels on which I have not included in these models.
STEP and IGES veio are also included in this project.
For some reason the GrabCAD 3D web viewer only displays the IGES files correctly and seems to have issues displaying the STEP and configurable Solidworks assembly files. Please download the models and open to see them displayed correctly.
Below are links to the RC4WD website for these axles:
http:tore.rc4wd.com/Yota-Ultimate-Scale-Cast-Silver-Axle-Front_p_3729.html
http:tore.rc4wd.com/Yota-Ultimate-Scale-Cast-Straight-Silver-Axle-Rear_p_3815.html
The distance between the outside edges of the two 12mm hex nuts on this model is 180mm as that's what I measured from the real parts,on both front and rear axles, to within about 0.5mm accuracy.
There are some images on the web with dimeio for these axles, and I believe the dimeion of 176.6mm given for the front axle in these images is incorrect. The rear axle web image shows 180mm for the same dimeion, which is correct.
If you look at both dimeioned web images, the distance between the iide of the 12mm hex nuts is 167mm (same as this model) and the outside dimeion across the two M4 wheel threads is 196mm (again the same as this model as measured off the real part). So the 176.6mm measurement shown in the web images below on the front axle must be incorrect.
Rear axle dimeioned image from web (correct):
http:www.rcmodelex.com/fotky4981/fotos/_vyrd12_616Z-A0061gg_3836.jpg
Front axle dimeioned image from web (incorrect):
http:www.beadlok.com/product/images/626/Z-A0058GG.jpg