Re: THe NAC Lots-O-Post Thread
I'll probably never get up to highway speeds (60+ mph).
I top out in 4th in low at just under 50 mph.
I'd be lucky to get up to 40 I'd bet with my suspension.
Yeah. You'll be fine with whatever you can cobble together in your garage. Sometimes you gotta step away from the interwebs and just build something outta common sense, ya know?
My front driveshaft has been a legendary pain in the ass since I built this thing:
The second run I had it out, it lathed itself in half on the frame side LCA bolt (that was a 2" x .120 tube).
One extended weekend at Rausch I messed it up 4 times in 3 days, on Jotter's Way. There was one ledge at the top that would always throw me sideways and land it directly on the point of some dumb rock.
Once during a club competition there I landed directly on it and broke it in half at the solid part of the slip spline. :exclamati Then I discovered that there's a 1-ton, 1310, 1.5" solid slip that was used in some rare applications...that's what I bought from that driveline place.
The t-case side started as a double-cardan, changed to a single u-joint to get more angle, then last year changed back to a double-cardan with more limited droop for better longevity. When it was a single u-joint I melted the joint at the t-case twice, which caused it to come out of the yoke, swing around, and break my shifter cables.
The u-joint at the axle is usually good, except after doing 20+ continuous high-speed laps on the practice course at Rausch, it mysteriously turned into a molten blob. (Adam saw this)
It's been pretty good for the last 6 months, though. That's when I put the double-cardan back in. Fresh u-joints, fresh centering ball, fresh slip yoke, still going strong.
