MD11Fr8Dog
CM09 Eight Ball winner
I knew I was going to need a new, longer travel driver shaft, but I wanted to see how easy it would be to get the drive shaft splines to separate! Sitting at rest there was about 1-1/2 inches of spline showing. So I take my 40 up onto one of my fields where I have some tree stumps. I found a decent size stump, and crawled up onto it. While I wasn't even close to full stuff, I was very pleased with the droop on the opposite side. I wasn't very surprised at the front drive shaft though, good thing I was only in rear wheel low!
I drove it back up my driveway and removed the driveshaft. Now I need to replace it ith a long enough shaft with enough travel. I was reading Woody's SOA write-up, since my setup is very similar to his, to get an idea of what I need to do. In his write, he lifts the front off the ground with his Hi Lift and measures the flange to flange distance, and does the same with the front wheels on the ground to get the difference. He figured 2 inches for compression and came up with 7in. Sounds pretty straight forward. I'm using a double cardan at the tcase, anything else to consider? Any suggestions on where to get one made? Anything else?
Thanks
I drove it back up my driveway and removed the driveshaft. Now I need to replace it ith a long enough shaft with enough travel. I was reading Woody's SOA write-up, since my setup is very similar to his, to get an idea of what I need to do. In his write, he lifts the front off the ground with his Hi Lift and measures the flange to flange distance, and does the same with the front wheels on the ground to get the difference. He figured 2 inches for compression and came up with 7in. Sounds pretty straight forward. I'm using a double cardan at the tcase, anything else to consider? Any suggestions on where to get one made? Anything else?
Thanks