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Title: CV elimination?
Post by: MKOLSEN22 on November 13, 2006, 10:30:09 PM

I was just thumbing through an old Downey Off-Road catalog for Toyotas and came across the kit in the following picture.  Has any one done this for the track-kicks?  Might be a cool upgrade to eliminate the weak inner cv joint assembly.  What do you guys think? 

Boy do I wish I had my lathe here.

Title: Re: CV elimination?
Post by: Rhinoman on November 14, 2006, 04:46:14 AM

Wild was considering something like that.
Where is Wild?

Title: Re: CV elimination?
Post by: Zukipilot on November 14, 2006, 12:32:42 PM

Quote from: Rhinoman on November 14, 2006, 04:46:14 AM

Where is Wild?

Good question. I have not seen him recently  :-\

Zig

Title: Re: CV elimination?
Post by: 37kicker on November 15, 2006, 05:41:27 PM

ifit replaces the inner part of the axle , there not weak , ive never broke the inner always the outer part . though the idea of having the slip joint would be cool.  stan

Title: Re: CV elimination?
Post by: ZeusZuki on November 15, 2006, 07:56:01 PM

Funny you should bring this up. I am looking into the same set up as we speak.
It is something that can be built with relative ease. Parts are pretty easy to source.

MOST IMPORTANT THOUGH: If they are designed properly then they could be a universal fit for 1600 Kicks / Widebody Vits and GV's - one size fits all  :D ( GV and widebody Vits have longer half shafts than the 1600's ).

Dana assemblies use the UJ type joints and seem strong enough so why wouldn't it work? - I do not see why not  ;)

ZeusZuki  8)

Title: Re: CV elimination?
Post by: MKOLSEN22 on November 16, 2006, 04:43:17 PM

I was also thinking that with this set up you could run a driver side flange on the passenger side.  Then let the slip portion of the axle make up the difference in length side to side.  Make up a third axle and keep as a spare.  Maybe source flanges that use the same u-joint as the rear drive shaft and only cary one spare to cover all of them.

Thoughts?

Title: Re: CV elimination?
Post by: barcus on November 16, 2006, 08:49:15 PM

wow very nice... for what year toyota axles are these? will this be an easy swap if you have stans toyota CV swap kit?

Title: Re: CV elimination?
Post by: MKOLSEN22 on November 16, 2006, 09:24:19 PM

The Downey kit fits Toyotas from 1986 to 1995.  Here is a link to Downey's web site.  Scroll down to almost the bottom and you will find this kit discussed.

http://www.downeyoff-road.com/SuspensionComponents/index.htm (http://www.downeyoff-road.com/SuspensionComponents/index.htm)