I have a 1998 chevy 1/2 ton 4x4. I wear out halfshafts for my 4x4 really easy and the angle isn't that bad either. I was wondering does anybody know where I can get better replacements or some made that can handle 35" tires and constant offroading? Im sick of replacing them its a waste of money. Any info anybody has would be great. Im not going to do a straight axle conversion either thats tooooo much money.

A few of us Chevy guys are still waiting for Jess to come up with something.....

How often are you having to replace shafts though, cause if your replacing them as often as it sounds, you might actually end up SAVING money in the long run to go ahead and do a SAS.... that's the way I looked at it when I did mine. :flipoff2:

I spent alot of money lifting my IFS suspension but I got sick of swapping out balljoints, Idlerarms, pitman arms, and blowing up cv joints, I was doing one or the others about every 3 months plus getting wheel alignments everytime I got back from wheelin'. So I bit the bullet.

You say you dont want to do a SAS cause its to expensive but I wouldnt waste anymore money on your IFS, do a straight axle conversion you'll be alot happier, wih the performance and the repair bill. Just my .02

AMEN!

in all fairness, his handle does say it all...back to :beer: & :zzz:

I would do a straight axel swap but then it won't handle through the desert at high speeds as well as my truck does now. I just wanna build up/upgrade the front to get more travel out of it. I want to keep the ifs and just get better replacement half shafts. Like you can for the toyotas, (porsche cv's). So if anybody finds out anything about better replacment half shafts ill be round waiting.

Take the CV's apart and weld on flanges for u-joints and make mini driveshafts. I don't know if that will make more clearence though.

Originally posted by sfazr2
Take the CV's apart and weld on flanges for u-joints and make mini driveshafts. I don't know if that will make more clearence though.


We were actually going to do that to an S10, but then got to thinking about vibration and all that jazz. If someone had the type of facility where they could make a driveshaft, like a driveline shop? they might be more in tune to watching the angles and getting everything balanced so the shaft doesn't vibrate the teeth out of your head! By the very nature of the CV joint, it needs to be a slip shaft with at least 5 inches of slip. Maybe more depending on how far you are gonna be droppin the front wheels, and how far those t-bars will actually let a wheel drop. The bearing assembly might need to be looked at also.

Who is this Jess guy? What is he coming up with?

Jess goes by onetoncv, here's his site http://www.highangledriveline.com

Jess is "The Man" at High Angle Driveline. He is also the guy responsible for making it Christmas twice a month, every month!

I have no idea if the thought had even crossed his mind. Just more of a pipe dream than anything else. The market is there. Someone has to come up with a fix for it.

I think the prob. with the driveshafts on an s-10 would be just too short and the amount of flex you're trying to get would bind the u joint yokes unless you found real small ones.

Actually I took my CV's apart after my SFA swap, and the joints themselves have a lot of travel, the problem is the boots. They just don't have enough bellows built into them. Plus the trianglulation of the a-arms starts getting REAL funky when you flex them too much. Full size a-arms are probably long enough to get a good range of flex without getting binding and weird tire angles. But then there's the ball joints.........

Damn it!!just put in a solid axle!!!:flipoff2: :flipoff2: