The application provides a heavy
truck axle housing manufacturing method, which comprises the following steps: selecting a ladder-shaped
pipe blank, firstly performing axial annular material supplementing pre-expanding to obtain a pre-expanding
pipe blank with an upper flat side, a lower side and front and rear convex sides, the wall thickness of the upper flat side is almost not thinned, and the wall thickness gradually decreases from the upper side to the lower side along the annular direction; and performing final expanding after annealing to obtain an axle housing
pipe, the upper side of the pre-expanding pipe blank becomes a front flat surface with a bell-shaped additional
front cover, the front and rear sides are shaped into a H-shaped side beam, the lower side becomes a semispherical rear oil cover, and the wall thickness of the front flat surface and the side beam is increased. The pre-expanding die is composed of left and right pressing heads, left and right sliding dies, an upper control die and a lower control die, the cavity axial width of the upper flat area of the upper control die is greater than that of the front and rear convex sides. The manufactured heavy
truck axle housing is free of welds and oil leakage, the wall thickness of the front flat surface and the side beam of the axle housing is large, the bending and torsion resistance is improved, the
diameter expansion rate is large during hydraulic expanding, the wall thickness
thinning rate is small, the forming quality is good, and the material
utilization rate is high.