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Spacers or custom driveshaft?

Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 8:30 am
by PJ.zook
I did a RUF conversion a while ago to my WT, which moved the front diff forward around 2" i think it was. So i fitted a spacer onto the front shaft which was around 1" or less, but you can still see plenty of slip joint spline sticking out, and now i have lots of play in the slipjoint which is gonna fail in near future.
Should i get the shaft rebuilt 2" or so longer, get it rebuilt standard (assumably therefore cheaper to rebuild) and buy another spacer, or find a second hander and buy another spacer?

Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 9:50 am
by moose
grab a hilux rear shaft & get it shortened to your length !!!

Longer slip joint !!!!! :cool:

Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 10:04 am
by Squik
Jut remember if you bust anything custom, you can't just borrow one to get you home...

Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 10:05 am
by moose
if its the front , who cares !!!! :D :P :D

Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 10:52 am
by Dee
how much slip do you see sticking past the boot when sitting on flat ground? did your d/s fall out at all without the spacer? when you did the RUF, did you redrill diff perch to get more ext or you got 2" ext doing just the ruf without touching pin location?
As i think I only have about 35mm ext, and theres about 1" of spline sticking out of the boot at normal resting/ride height...

Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 3:52 pm
by alien
extending the shaft will mean a lesser angle on the shaft - all be it very minor, a spacer will make the shaft angle greater...

but then spacers are cheap =)