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Originally posted by Mike C
I have 4" on my Jimmy and had no troubles with the stock rear shaft. I first had 1 1/2" add-a-leaves and 2 1/2" blocks but bent the axle housing perches! It now has a set of 4" National springs in the rear but I disposed of the EXTREMELY clapped out stock rear shaft for a Tom Woods CV joint rear shaft. The rear springs tilt the rear axle up to a virtually zero pinion angle which is correct for a CV shaft, but not for a non CV shaft. I had tossed my original shaft out a couple of times after breaking rear yokes and/or u-joints and it was tweaked as well as just worn from 300k+ miles. The new shaft elimintated about 2/3 of the slack in the driveline.
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Mike, when you say zero pinion angle you mean perfectly horizotal right ?
that would explain why some trucks have perfectyl horizontal pinion and why some are tilted up/back a bit,....
hmmmmm.........
09-28-2002, 02:41 AM
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