Axle shaft protection inquiry.

[Schepp]

Should I be concerned about any rocks scraping or otherwise damaging the axle shafts on my Baja? I’ve seen some people use rubber hose as a way of protecting them. What’s your thoughts on this?
I’m about to assemble my new cv’s and thought if I was going to do this now is the time. The question is should I?
If any of you have done this, what size/type hose have you used?

Thanks
Schepp

[Wulfthang]

I've thought about that too and decided it's waste or time and effort. Unless you actually sleeved it with something that will give structural support like a steel tube, etc, you won't be able to prevent it from bending if you land wrong on a big rock. Anything like a rubber hose, etc, would just get nicked up and look like crap. I decided to leave mine shiny metal.

[oprn]

All that will do is hold water and cause corrosion.
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[dirtkeeper]

Don’t think it’s necessary. I haven’t ever seen it and I haven’t seen or heard of a broken axle on a bug. Not that it hasn’t happened , just don’t think it’s at all common.

[PhillipM]

I use protective heat shrink because I have seen a few axles break due to chips from rock impacts creating stress risers over the years - we used to combat it by just wrapping the things in a lot of electrical tape but glue lined heatshrink is much easier and neater: