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IdahoDoug said:But this is always a sore spot with me - why would I risk some big $$$ on their birf when the Toyota one is just fine when properly maintained?
DougM
LandCruiserPhil said:It needs to be redesigned….larger dia. bell, deeper bell, and bigger balls with OEM rated steel. The most improvement needs to be in the strength of the birf when the wheels are turned. If they can build one from scratch why not build a bigger one?
IdahoDoug said:Phil,
Interesting point. Frankly if I owned the company and wanted to sell birfs, I'd drop a couple thousand bucks in having an independent test of the breaking strength of mine vs an OEM birf and post it on my website. I'm always amazed at these fabricators that design an alternative to a heavy part and make claims but don't provide subjective data. Wouldn't you think if they were competent enough to design and build one from scratch they'd be able to do CAD analysis of the design to fix whatever's weakest about the OEM part, then prove it in a test? We in the community always seem to look at these and say "I'll wait a couple years and see how they hold up for others". Ludicrous that they don't provide actual strength comparisons. Who knows, maybe this one will be different and we'll see actual data. But this is always a sore spot with me - why would I risk some big $$$ on their birf when the Toyota one is just fine when properly maintained?
DougM
e9999 said:yea, what's that about? I thought knowledgeable folks had asserted here that the 80 axles are stronger than Dana 60s...
(if we can trust a "commercial" if that's what that graph is, of course...)
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Arya Ebrahimi said:what are you defining as "wheel joints"?? Birfs or Knuckles or what?