Long Travel BS Thread

PLEASE HELP ME!
I am getting my aftermarket 2nd gen cv axle's rebuilt with the total chaos extended axle's by a shop and they told me that the spline is too big for my after market cv axle, so I called total chaos and they said I need oem cv axles but how different can oem cv axles be compared to after market ones? I don't have the money for oem axles and I want to drive my truck again

 

i welded mine to the crossmember on the passenger side after i relocated my exhaust

 

Well there's not really anything to do but buy oem axles...

It'll cost WAY more to attempt to make your aftermarket cvs work with the extended shafts.

 

I am going to get oem but I just didn't understand why it wouldn't fit aftermarket cv axles... now to either sell an arm for these or hopefully find used

 

If you buy the entire halfshaft a lot of times they do not even have the same spline count..... Cheap fucks

 

all new ruffstuff links, hardware, and housing $2,500 on RDC if anyone on heres interested looks like a decent deal

http://www.race-dezert.com/classifieds/index.php?ct=orpart&md=details&id=88343

 

I would imagine it would be a little squirrelly with those tires on there.

 

That truss sure is gonna do alot of good

 

Yeah it will. It'll keep the inside 40% of the housing from bending. The outside? Eh, that's not that important...

 

Hey can I get more guidance on my cv axle problem, so the shop I sent them to also tried it on my old cv axle which they thought it was oem, the part number is T0-558 P13L06N2-k# which I would believe is OEM but I couldn't find anything online matching it(maybe a number is off due to a scratch or something). Also apparently it was an 1/8 too big to fit the internals...do all 4wd LT run oem?

 

So is there any write ups on triangulated 4 link for prerunners? I found something on race-dezert from 2008 ,but that was mostly a shit storm of garbage. Dezertrangers nothing popped up in my google search that looked like what I was looking for. I see so many different ways people set up 4 link. I'd figure any sort of change would give you a whole different handling characteristic. The only stuff I can find detailed 4 link descriptions is for street cars and crawlers.

 

Interested in this too.

 

Just slap it on and hope for the best.

 

Those tubes are 3.5" 3/8" thick.... A truss is really only needed for racing.

 

CV Grease...whats your favorite???

Trying to decide what to go with when I build my spare axles...set I built that are on my truck have OEM Toyota grease packets

I've searched and searched main contenders I come up with are Swepco/Belray mix, Cat Gold and Redline CV2.

 

I had no issues with mine when I installed the extended shafts. I do not remember seeing a part number on them though, but for fact I know mine were OEM.

 

Tell tale for OEM axles is the green/white label thing on the shaft. (At least for 2nd gens)

 

Thank you very much! The axle they didn't test out was the one that had the green sticker so hopefully everything ends up alright. This has been the biggest pain in the ass.