JUST GOT A FIRSTPAIR OF CTM-UJOINTS TO FINLAND...
They look very nice.:p :p

will they hold like promissed:confused: :confused:

I think that most people would agree that the quality is going down-hill fast with these u-joints. Some people are getting rid of the newest CTM's and replacing them with pieces of wood (preferably a hard wood).


I couldn't resist. :p

actualy , im having better luck with the balsa wood ones i made last week.. :flipoff2:

no way, it's all about the clay u-joints. Just mold those babies up, pop 'em in the oven, and bam! you get indestructable home molded u-joints.

Originally posted by T1H5_TA3
actualy , im having better luck with the balsa wood ones i made last week.. :flipoff2:



Dude almost my entire rig is made out of balso wood.. it only weights 85 lbs!

Originally posted by ZAG
JUST GOT A FIRSTPAIR OF CTM-UJOINTS TO FINLAND...
They look very nice.:p :p

will they hold like promissed:confused: :confused:


i got 8 months, 4 competition's, 10 day's worth of trails at teh hammers, and probabl 30 day's of wheeling in my local area with 38.5's @ 190:1 and finally lost one due to an axle failure, they were worth the money...


but my new one i made to replace it out of cow shit andmolasses is working just about as well :flipoff2:

Originally posted by liveaxle
I think that most people would agree that the quality is going down-hill fast with these u-joints. Some people are getting rid of the newest CTM's and replacing them with pieces of wood (preferably a hard wood).


I couldn't resist. :p

The quality isn't going down hill...it is just because people run their rigs harder because they have them.

CTM is still in the trial and error phase. They are working to perfect their product. Like any other product, nothing is invinsible. Just some work better than others. I think that CTM supercedes other U-joints by far.

Originally posted by liveaxle
I think that most people would agree that the quality is going down-hill fast with these u-joints. Some people are getting rid of the newest CTM's and replacing them with pieces of wood (preferably a hard wood).


I couldn't resist. :p

Can you explain how they are going downhill? Give us some facts here! If you dont like them throw your stock 297's back in there. :flipoff2:

Originally posted by bigjeepinYJ


Can you explain how they are going downhill?

i belive that they go down hill while ataced to two shafts inside an axle housing.. usualy after passing a guy running spicers on the way up... :flipoff2: i have seen them going down hill tho to bring spare parts to people that wernt running ctm's.. lol got to love sarcasim.. :flipoff2:

Originally posted by DSI

but my new one i made to replace it out of cow shit andmolasses is working just about as well :flipoff2:

Glad to see the Dairygold helper cows are living up to their name, even with their recent publicity and workload generated by it.



:flipoff2:

Originally posted by 4x4Grrl


The quality isn't going down hill...it is just because people run their rigs harder because they have them.

CTM is still in the trial and error phase. They are working to perfect their product. Like any other product, nothing is invinsible. Just some work better than others. I think that CTM supercedes other U-joints by far.

Yeah, so I think he was joking there ;)

kiitos vastauksista jos ymmärrätte................:flipoff2: :flipoff2: :flipoff2: :flipoff2:

Originally posted by DSI



i got 8 months, 4 competition's, 10 day's worth of trails at teh hammers, and probabl 30 day's of wheeling in my local area with 38.5's @ 190:1 and finally lost one due to an axle failure, they were worth the money...


but my new one i made to replace it out of cow shit andmolasses is working just about as well :flipoff2:

How do you know the axle went first???? I remember when they first came out and were beginning to be used in comps (the machined joints) Everything but the joint was breaking. Kelly twisted both inner and outer Warn shafts, grenaded an ARB... but did not harm the joint (Jack had it on display at Victorville) In Victorville H8 grenaded a Warn premium hub, again the joint was unharmed. Chris Durham blew a set of D60 axles, found the undamaged CTM and held it up for the crowd to see.... and it goes on. At the Donner Cal Rocs, there were 5 CTM failures, some took Warn axles with them (or vice versa I guess) in some the axles were not damaged and I don't remeber any of them grenading a hub or locker. This leads me to believe that the new forged joints are breaking before the original joints did. The resulting force from when the joint is blowing is not violent enough to take out hubs, lockers and in some of the cases the alloy axles. This is the evidence that suggests that the current forged CTM's are not as strong as the original machined joints.

A guy I sold a set to took out 2 sets of Warn Premium hubs, a driveshaft, both outers, and an inner before breaking a CTM... and he was hammering the crap out of it with his wheels at full lock and bouncing - sounds to me like the new forged ones are holding up fine....

Originally posted by Wilson



This is the evidence that suggests that the current forged CTM's are not as strong as the original machined joints.

WRONG.
This IS evidence that there are way more sets on the market getting abused on a daily basis and therefore way more chances of failure. Forged parts are stronger than billit.

i agree. all the evidence shown to me by several diffrent machinest make me belive the claim that the forged joint is actually stronger than the billet unit.

Originally posted by 44Runner


Yeah, so I think he was joking there ;)


Exactly. :rolleyes: