waggy axle shaft question

[redjeepguy]

looking around the web this evening i found this site

http://www.teamgrandwagoneer.com/par...ain/index.html

3 items up from the bottom they show front axle u-joints, and they have circle clips. everything i have read says that you have to upgrade to cromo shafts to run full circle clips, so am i missing something or is this website simply wrong? can you run full circle clip u-joints with the stock waggy shafts?

Mark

[Cue-Ball]

Originally Posted by redjeepguy

looking around the web this evening i found this site

http://www.teamgrandwagoneer.com/par...ain/index.html

3 items up from the bottom they show front axle u-joints, and they have circle clips. everything i have read says that you have to upgrade to cromo shafts to run full circle clips, so am i missing something or is this website simply wrong? can you run full circle clip u-joints with the stock waggy shafts?

Mark

I thought you could??

[JeepManEd]

I believe those clips are the stock ones for most dana front axles....they are a "C" clip only part circle. If someone is refering to full circle clips I believe they are the ones on the outer part of the u-joint. But Maybe someone has the right or better answer

[Cue-Ball]

Originally Posted by JeepManEd

I believe those clips are the stock ones for most dana front axles....they are a "C" clip only part circle. If someone is refering to full circle clips I believe they are the ones on the outer part of the u-joint. But Maybe someone has the right or better answer

Ah yes now it's all comming back to me. This sounds Right

[Mel85CJ]

Your intial thought is correct that you cant fun fill circle clips on waggy shafts w/o either grinding or going alloy shafts.

[Janster]

Not sure about the full circle clips....

Are you running stock waggy shafts?? Why not run a 760x ujoint??

[NE-RokToy]

This is a full circle clip like you are refering to:



The link you posted is just some no name replacement U-joint with the stock style retainers.

[redjeepguy]

Originally Posted by NE-RokToy

This is a full circle clip like you are refering to:



The link you posted is just some no name replacement U-joint with the stock style retainers.

yeah, i knew they werent full circle clips, but i have never seen the half circle clips offered with stock replacement u-joints. just threw me off a little.

janster, i have stock waggy shafts, and im still running 297 joints.

the local 4x4 shop offers 760 joints with full circle clips, and im kinda wondering if its worth it just to get the shafts machined to use the full circle clips. most d44's ive seen break are because the caps backed out (and yes mine are tack welded but ive seen the welds break and spit the caps).