Double cardan idea--will this work?

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Timber

NAXJA Forum User

Location

Slohio

• Mar 20, 2006

• #1

What about doing this to a stock rear prop. shaft?

To make a bit more room for the added 211229x d.cardan piece, a bit could be whacked off the slip yoke. Right? By the way, I'm thinking about doing this for an 8.25" and 242.

 

OT

NAXJA Forum User

Location

Jensen, UT

• Mar 20, 2006

• #2

Totally possible.
It's done on Chevys all the time.
Just not as good as a SYE.

 

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Timber

NAXJA Forum User

Location

Slohio

• Mar 20, 2006

• #3

That's what I was afraid I'd hear. On the bright side, I just bid on a '94 XJ front shaft and even if its length won't work for me, I'll have a dirt cheap d. cardan piece.

 

BrettM

NAXJA Forum User

Location

michifornia

• Mar 20, 2006

• #4

i would just go the $169 PORC SYE and front driveshaft route if you're on a strict budget

 

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Timber

NAXJA Forum User

Location

Slohio

• Mar 20, 2006

• #5

I thought theirs was only for the 231.

 

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Timber

NAXJA Forum User

Location

Slohio

• Mar 21, 2006

• #6

Well, this http://www.naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?t=80289 posted about an hour ago verified that I wasn't crazy or thinking too wishfully. It has been done!

 

opracer315

NAXJA Forum User

Location

Spokane, Wa.

• Mar 21, 2006

• #7

I have that on my 88 XJ with D44 5" lift. Six States In Spokane, WA. made it for me. Cost 250.00 the guy that made it runs an 89 XJ With 10" of lift, he also runs the same way.

 

Powerman

NAXJA Forum User

Location

Colorado

• Mar 21, 2006

• #8

Not sure if your's is the same as my 242. That was a yoke. The shaft you have pictured would give you a CV joint, but leave the slip on the TC out put shaft. The reason to do a slip yoke eliminator and move the slip to the drive shaft is to shorten the length of the output shaft. That gives you a longer shaft which helps with angle, and moves the weight of the heavier CV joint closer to the TC bearing for better support. If I have said stuff you already know, and your idea takes care of this, then pardon me.

 

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Timber

NAXJA Forum User

Location

Slohio

• Mar 21, 2006

• #9

No pardon necessary. Actually, I did grab the wrong picture, and I admittedly know little about different styles of outputs/yokes/flanges/et cetera. I'm going to use a front shaft, but I don't feel like paying for the flange if I can just take the old slip yoke, cut it down, and have someone machine the inside as you did. Why isn't this more common? It seems so much more logical, not to mention cheaper.