| 摘要 |
<p>A drive axle assembly (10) has a gear housing (12), axle tubes (14) extending outwardly of the gear housing, and an axle shaft (26) disposed in each axle tube with an external wheel hub (28) at a protruding end of the axle shaft. Each axle shaft is rotatably supported in a flanged end collar (16) at a remote end of the axle tube by a bearing assembly (30) that is mounted on the axle shaft and retained in the end collar by a screw cap (32). The drive axle assembly includes a brake member (34) mounted externally on the end collar in juxtaposition to an external shaped flange (44) of the end collar. The screw cap clamps the brake member against the external flange to locate the brake member on the axle tube in an axial direction and to non-rotatably couple the brake member to the axle tube. <IMAGE></p> |
