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From my reading - not experience - you want equal opposing angles at both ends of the shaft to prevent vibration. So if you could split that 16 into 8 on each end you would have zero vibration, but 16 on one end will not be good.Hmmmmm. I think….not great.
Open to suggestions. I believe the pinion needs to come down but I can only bring it down maybe 5°-6° total or so.
Driveshaft is FLAT, 1° downwards from the Orion
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More or less flat at the Orion yoke
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And this is the issue. I believe 1410 joints are good to around 35° of operating angle. I care nothing about wearing out u-joints. I do care about it vibrating at highway speed.
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Top of the truss is sitting at 0° here. Pinion is upwards 16° total.
I should add that as the suspension cycles, the angles aren’t going to change much based on the measurements I took. Some, not much. The driveshaft slip is only about 3/16” overall
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Anybody have thoughts? I can only rotate the pinion downwards so much before the angles on the coil buckets and shock mounts get totally screwed. Oh if only I had 16” of lift![]()
Well, cutting that all off and starting from scratch would be no fun. At all. And it’s occurred to me for sure.From my reading - not experience - you want equal opposing angles at both ends of the shaft to prevent vibration. So if you could split that 16 into 8 on each end you would have zero vibration, but 16 on one end will not be good.
How hard is it to flatten the pinion and remodel the buckets and shock mounts?
Many would go to great lengths to have virtually no angles, 3/16 slip if packaging allowed at all.
So a C&C hub is about 3 7/8", so wms with these on an older 14b would be about 64 3/4" which is about the same as the 2nd gen 14b at 65" wms.
I frankly don’t know WHAT is going on with the steering pumps lately. I ran a PSC for 13 years before it wore out. This one lasted 1/2 a day. Stock one lasted 1/2 a day 6 months agoThis thing sounds mean! Sorry to hear about the pump. Hopefully it’s the last one that you have to replace in this. Looks like fun. I can’t wait to get mine out.