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Links to vendors are A OK. Feel free to link to any vendor site. Links to current auctions are what is prohibited. ODIron will be handling the Ouveson line of parts including the hubs and doule splined axle shafts. Those that really want to brutify your ride, Randy also has 2" axle shafts and...
maybe that spimplification will help. If both axle shaft were removed from that one axle but the carrier was spinning, would the spiders and axles gears be turning? Answer is no. Now if there was an axle in one side and it was turning at the same speed as the carrier the spiders would still be...
RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: from 6x6 to 6x2
Yes one shaft will be turning with the tires and one not. But if the one turining is going the same speed as the carrier the spider gears won't spin. Let me try it this way. Lets say the aft rear axle has both shafts in place. The carrier is turning...
RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: from 6x6 to 6x2
Both carriers will still be turning at the same speed as the inter axle drive shaft will still be there. The axle that is still in place will be spinning as well so it will be turning the spiders. If you stopped the carrier from truning and still had...
RE: Interaxle Shaft Modification
Its referred to as phasing. Driveline vibrations cancel themselvs out of the shaft is in phase and the pinion angles the same. Condidering the fixed geometry beween the 2 rear axles, I doubt that you would notice it.
RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: from 6x6 to 6x2
I'm glad you guys figured that out! I went round and round over this very subject about 4 or 5 years ago with a bunch of folks on the Mil-Veh list. Some were very obtuse about the whole concept. I spent a long time on the phone with Art Bloom on this very...