If you wanna make pulling the axle apart a little easier you can just pull the locking hub face off remove the snap ring on the axle and the wiper seals on the back. Once that’s all loose pull your steering arm and you can pull it all off as one unit.
So maybe those OEM toyota double cardan don't have a lot of angle before biding, but I am running Toms wood double cardan front and rear on my samurai (full 1983 toyota drivetrain and axles) and mine can get a lot of angle before binding. Just putting this out there for people to not think all double cardan are low angles. Nothing wrong with singles, but on a short drive line, pointing the axles at the transfer case also reduce drive shaft angle by a large amount.
Yes good point! Another option is if you can get your hands on a First Gen OEM Toyota Double Cardan it has a high operating angle. Another point, if you direct the front pinion to the TCase you will also need to cut and rotate your knuckles to adjust your castor!
ah yea, you will need to do that, I had to do it anyway since the axles I got where from some crazy lifted show truck or something, they had 26 degree in them. You could tell since the gears front and rear had diffrent ratios lol. Sound like a difficult job but it was not that bad to rotate them even for a first timer like me.@@alpinefab
Glad to see u back man
Glad to be back!!
If you wanna make pulling the axle apart a little easier you can just pull the locking hub face off remove the snap ring on the axle and the wiper seals on the back. Once that’s all loose pull your steering arm and you can pull it all off as one unit.
Wicked! In this case I am rebuilding the full axle with new parts so I’d need to re-assemble anyways. Good option for trail fixes though!
@@alpinefab I like it even in the shop because those cone washers are a bitch lol. And you don’t have to mess with the wheel bearings.
lets go!
So maybe those OEM toyota double cardan don't have a lot of angle before biding, but I am running Toms wood double cardan front and rear on my samurai (full 1983 toyota drivetrain and axles) and mine can get a lot of angle before binding. Just putting this out there for people to not think all double cardan are low angles. Nothing wrong with singles, but on a short drive line, pointing the axles at the transfer case also reduce drive shaft angle by a large amount.
Yes good point! Another option is if you can get your hands on a First Gen OEM Toyota Double Cardan it has a high operating angle.
Another point, if you direct the front pinion to the TCase you will also need to cut and rotate your knuckles to adjust your castor!
ah yea, you will need to do that, I had to do it anyway since the axles I got where from some crazy lifted show truck or something, they had 26 degree in them. You could tell since the gears front and rear had diffrent ratios lol. Sound like a difficult job but it was not that bad to rotate them even for a first timer like me.@@alpinefab