making sure the Birf CV joints is the correct ones..

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RedJed78

RedJed78

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bought some Birf cv-joints and curious if they are the correct ones. i have a 1997 LC rigid front suspension or live axle ( not the car CV joint), from the factory non-locker... still non lockers.

Heres numbers off the box...HDK "TO-030" or its "T0-O3O" pretty sure its the first one. Does this make sense to anyone? Is the 30 the spline number or number of teeth?

if so is there a way to tell the correct one for my year
 
Where did you buy them from? I would ask them. That is not a normal number that I am familiar with, it seems to link back to some company in Japan called HDK, but their site lists about 20 different birfield part numbers for an 80 series.



RedJed78 said:
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scottryana said:
Where did you buy them from? I would ask them. That is not a normal number that I am familiar with, it seems to link back to some company in Japan called HDK, but their site lists about 20 different birfield part numbers for an 80 series.
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theyre from cruiserparts.net and all I found other than the place I ordered them from were the chromoly type that I hear are to soft of metal for street driving and inevitably you have to replace them two years later if you're lucky.
 
Id agree with picking up a phone and contacting supplier to confirm, though that would normally be prt of the ordering process for me.

The later birfs ar 246.5 mm in length.

Earlier are 238.5. Not used in a 97 in orm stock configuration.

If that is what you got and noone has monkeyed around with drive flanges id assume you were good. Sometimes It pays to order from a solid and reliable source if you are unsure what you are after.

I suspect ther are lots more sources than what your searches yeilded. Many a trail tamer dealers on board here. Land cruiser parts and consulting, valley hybrids, etc.
 
Hate to say about the same - betting your old ones are still in & you can't measure the OAL to the C-clip channel, correct?

Seems in stock ones the short older are green tipped paint & the longer were the pink/magenta color swatch. Just going from memory when I bought new birfs for my axle rebuild.
 
I haven't begun to install them yet. waiting til December for that. getting my parts together. last on the list is drilled and slotted rotors front and rear. then I'm ready. I'm in the mountains a lot and there are times I...don't ride the brakes but apply for 2 to 3 seconds and release and so on. and I live in a hilly area so...
 
I've got To-030's on the shafts I pulled from my old diff housing. Glad I kept them as I fitted up new HDK To-057n CV's to the replacement diff housing today and was unable to get them to pull out far enough to fit the snap-ring after installing Aisin part-time hub bases, so I had to disassemble my work, make a huge mess with grease and diff oil, and re-fit my older HDK's and shafts.
 
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