Originally Posted by
foolio
It gets easier with practice but it's definitely not the best design out there. I constantly had trouble with axle pins shearing and I was just running stock in my B4. Well, I shouldn't say constantly, but at least once a month I would shear one side or the other. I like the Hex design that a lot of cars have. Impossible to put a wheel on wrong and it holds up for damn near forever.
See I keep hearing and seeing people complain about drive pins shearing, and in 7-someodd years of driving Associated trucks I've never had a problem with that. I think the fix is to remove shims from the inboard side of the hub. That way the pin seats deeper inside the wheel.