Re: The Colorado BS thread
I got Two Ford Superduty front drive shafts that I bought for about $125 for the pair in plans to build a set of 1350 cv shafts to upgrade the 1310 I had ...lol...I cut and lengthened the rear 1310 and shortened the front as temp shafts to move my rig ,but the 1310s are proving to have no problem handling 44s and an Atlas 5.0 . Just yesterday I took it out on the back roads 44s and snow packed to ice is fun with no traction so hammer down until tsl rips through icy snow pack then they find hard frozen road and hook all at once shock loading the drive train ...no Kaboom...I then practice playing with front digs same thing pedal to floor wheel full lock turn and during the dig it would find hard frozen road and you could feel it grab ,but once again...no kaboom.
I'm just going to pick up some old xj front shafts and build them ready to install , but will probably never bother to build these Ford superduty shafts I just do not think they are worth it...lol...I mean I am trying to break these and they are laughing at me...The only shaft failure I had on 40 boggers was from not inspecting driveline for loose bolts and the front yoke to cardan was loose...kaboom...but had those been properly tightened it never would have broke . Also the 1350 from close inspection uses the ...same centering ball...as the 1310 so it is not a full upgrade ...lol...could the Pirate folks be wrong and you do not need Semi truck sized driveshaft joints for a Jeep .
I got Two Ford Superduty front drive shafts that I bought for about $125 for the pair in plans to build a set of 1350 cv shafts to upgrade the 1310 I had ...lol...I cut and lengthened the rear 1310 and shortened the front as temp shafts to move my rig ,but the 1310s are proving to have no problem handling 44s and an Atlas 5.0 . Just yesterday I took it out on the back roads 44s and snow packed to ice is fun with no traction so hammer down until tsl rips through icy snow pack then they find hard frozen road and hook all at once shock loading the drive train ...no Kaboom...I then practice playing with front digs same thing pedal to floor wheel full lock turn and during the dig it would find hard frozen road and you could feel it grab ,but once again...no kaboom.
I'm just going to pick up some old xj front shafts and build them ready to install , but will probably never bother to build these Ford superduty shafts I just do not think they are worth it...lol...I mean I am trying to break these and they are laughing at me...The only shaft failure I had on 40 boggers was from not inspecting driveline for loose bolts and the front yoke to cardan was loose...kaboom...but had those been properly tightened it never would have broke . Also the 1350 from close inspection uses the ...same centering ball...as the 1310 so it is not a full upgrade ...lol...could the Pirate folks be wrong and you do not need Semi truck sized driveshaft joints for a Jeep .