copbait said:
so you think that just because something doesn't break, that means it can't have any negative effects on other components? wow thanks for that very thorough analysis there, you must be an engineer.
copbait said:
....but the thing you don't seem to be understanding is that the driveshaft can and will affect other parts of the driveline, and people may not even realize the true cause. like someone might be eating up ujoints more often than is normal, or the pinion bearings might be going, but they attribute that to some other problem.
Yeah, it's called setting the pinion angle to address the type of driveshaft you're running.
You said it yourself. People are running them with no issues. People have been doing it for YEARS with no issues. There's nothing to analize. I am just failing to understand why you want to come on here and argue about something that has been PROVEN to work with no issues?? It's a freakin' driveshaft. They are balanced, they use the same u-joints. What can it possibly do to create negative effects on other parts?
No, I'm no engineer, but I have what is called COMMON SENSE, and you sound more like the "engineers" where I work that want to overanalize things to death to prove their point at all costs, only to fail to do so in the end when a much simpler and easier method is shown to work better, or at least just as well as their over-engineered method.
My advice to you:
Go buy a Tom Woods shaft. It will cost you about 300% more to go that route. It will be "proven" by your standards. It will be pretty and shiny. It will come wrapped up nice and tidy in a package. Will THAT will prove to you that it's "engineered" to your specifications? And it will still be the same basic design, so if an XJ shaft will cause "negative effects", so will a TW shaft.
The ONLY thing I can think of that a TW shaft would have over an XJ shaft is longer splines in the slip, and possibly larger spline section. But it's been, yet again, proven that u-joints will fail long before the XJ shaft's spline section will.
According to your logic, you shouldn't do ANYTHING that will have an adverse effect on other parts of the vehicle. So save yourself the headache and leave your XJ stock.
It's funny, but you are starting to remind me a little of "XJGuy" that used to post on here. Even in the face of defeat, he would argue his point 'till he was blue in the face about things that had been proven time and time again to work (or not work), yet he couldn't get away from his computer long enough to get out there and actually SEE what did or didn't work.
:doh: