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Rear drive unit shaft material any good?
« on: December 15, 2008, 06:11:15 PM »
What do you think of this for the rear sprocket shaft??


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Re: Rear drive unit shaft material any good?
« Reply #1 on: December 15, 2008, 06:38:00 PM »
How are you gonna connect to that smooth slipery shaft?? ;D

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Re: Rear drive unit shaft material any good?
« Reply #2 on: December 15, 2008, 06:47:21 PM »
How are you gonna connect to that smooth slipery shaft?? ;D

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Re: Rear drive unit shaft material any good?
« Reply #3 on: December 15, 2008, 06:50:55 PM »
HAHA!! LOL! I actually planned on doing some sort of weld on disk at either end to allow my F150 CV's to bolt on. All I really want to know is is it strong enough?
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Re: Rear drive unit shaft material any good?
« Reply #4 on: December 15, 2008, 08:24:41 PM »
I think what you want is something like this.
1 3/8 G&G splined shaft. comes in 6 or 21 spline. and a G&G splined weld hub.
If you weld hubs to both ends of the Thomson shaft, how will you mount the bearings?


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« Reply #5 on: December 15, 2008, 08:45:53 PM »
OK first off.  I was just pointing out that it was a polished shaft.  That was the first clean thought I had today, and Yummi perverts it.....

You do need something like Rick has.  The shaft would probably be strong enough, but welding to it will not hold.  The problem is the Cv's that Whiplash is using have splined shafts on them, not flanges.  Did you buy 4 complete halfshafts to get those CV's Whiplash?  I have been thinking about this some myself.

Are you going to go 5-link in the rear to keep away from plunge?

You could cut the shafts off of two of the CV's and weld flanges on, but I am guessing that the CV OD's are larger than a 930 CV bolt pattern which will make it very ugly.

I have been looking at those CV's, Is there a seal or something that you need in addition to the half shaft, and F-150 bearing hub?

I had an idea of how to handle the center using those CV's, but I wanted to try it myself before throwing it out to the public.  Anyway I attached a PDF of the concept.  I just don't want someone to try it not understanding that it isn't tested.  I have already got some feedback on the idea, and the biggest problem is probably holding it from only one side.

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Re: Rear drive unit shaft material any good?
« Reply #6 on: December 15, 2008, 08:54:41 PM »
Where are the pictures of what Whiplash is using?

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« Reply #7 on: December 15, 2008, 09:05:31 PM »

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« Reply #8 on: December 15, 2008, 09:11:02 PM »
So would he. ;D ;D Just kidding,whip!
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Re: Rear drive unit shaft material any good?
« Reply #9 on: December 16, 2008, 07:16:27 AM »
Yummi perverts it.....

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« Reply #10 on: December 16, 2008, 08:20:37 AM »
It's what I do.  I have no real skill in the buggy world so poking fun at folks is my only contribution.  No worries, the dirty thoughts will come back to you soon enough.

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Re: Rear drive unit shaft material any good?
« Reply #11 on: December 16, 2008, 01:46:37 PM »
OK first off.  I was just pointing out that it was a polished shaft.  That was the first clean thought I had today, and Yummi perverts it.....

You do need something like Rick has.  The shaft would probably be strong enough, but welding to it will not hold.  The problem is the Cv's that Whiplash is using have splined shafts on them, not flanges.  Did you buy 4 complete halfshafts to get those CV's Whiplash?  I have been thinking about this some myself.

Are you going to go 5-link in the rear to keep away from plunge?

You could cut the shafts off of two of the CV's and weld flanges on, but I am guessing that the CV OD's are larger than a 930 CV bolt pattern which will make it very ugly.

I have been looking at those CV's, Is there a seal or something that you need in addition to the half shaft, and F-150 bearing hub?

I had an idea of how to handle the center using those CV's, but I wanted to try it myself before throwing it out to the public.  Anyway I attached a PDF of the concept.  I just don't want someone to try it not understanding that it isn't tested.  I have already got some feedback on the idea, and the biggest problem is probably holding it from only one side.

This is 2008 almost 9, Who the fxxk attaches pdfs that take forever to download and open, Make us a damn Jpg file, WTF!!!

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« Reply #12 on: December 16, 2008, 03:07:29 PM »

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Re: Rear drive unit shaft material any good?
« Reply #13 on: December 16, 2008, 03:10:42 PM »
Screen grabber, maybe Yummi will pm you one... I had one but dont know wtf happened to it...

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Re: Rear drive unit shaft material any good?
« Reply #14 on: December 16, 2008, 03:14:21 PM »
Like you said it is almost 2009....  Can't this thing display a PDF, the most commonly used format these days.....

 

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