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on April 21, 2010, 5:25 am Mustsed wrote:
Hello everybody,
Got my parts back from the shop and tough I share.
While the hafshafts and wishbones are been shortened, I removed the caliper and separate the differential from the rest awaiting the gears I ordered. I don't want to do a job twice therefore I left the differential as is and will take care of the cleaning and visuals later when the shop has done their work.
For $20/pcs I let them change all u-joints on the halfshafts with new ones. I dont want to get into this rear end again in the next 30 years.
Halfshafts & wishbones are now exact build to size and ready to go back after I have done the other parts too.
I will try to make this rear end to look a little better then the first one and therefore will change the lower alignment plate with something custom also.
Any and all comments are welcome.
Mustsed
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What is the material the shops used to narrow the half shafts??? It looks about the same OD as the original halfshafts. when I had mine made the first time they useds tubing that was the same OD as the original. I was concerned about strength so I had another set made with bigger tubing.
Some time later a mechanical engineer ran some numbers and it turns out that the original ones I had made were about 85% as strong as the stock units and since the stock units can handle over 600 HP I think I would have been fine to run them, oh well.
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I don't recall the stock halfshaft diameter but these one's are.... 38mm hydraulic line tubing meant for high pressure fluid transfer - at least that's what the shop claimed them to be. These are the same as in the former IRS I've done and after reading this post I went to the garage to measure - they're beefy.
My car never will make big power to break these - for sure.
Mustsed
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those should be better than stock.
I did the math and 38 mm is the same as 1.5". Stock is 1.25" and I had mine done out of 1.75" which is twice as strong as stock so you should be more than strong enough
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