drjim
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Long Beach, CA
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| Interesting New U-Joint
Stumbled across this the other day and thought it might be of interest to my fellow gear-heads.
Watch the video, it's pretty neat!
»cvcoupling.com/index.php?option=···temid=58
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Rifleman
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p1a
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BurntCricket
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I watched their promo video, really cool stuff, CV/U joints have been basically unchanged for many many years.
I have had a few of them give way and it can be a disaster, when they break you are down, there is no way to "limp" home if one breaks.
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lotusracer
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Moline, IL
| said by BurntCricket  :I watched their promo video, really cool stuff, CV/U joints have been basically unchanged for many many years. I have had a few of them give way and it can be a disaster, when they break you are down, there is no way to "limp" home if one breaks. I remember seeing the front u-joint give way on a truck going down the road one time.... boy, did that driveshaft throw the back end of the truck up in a hurry when it snagged the pavement!  |
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ttiiggy
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»www.rblewis.net/personal/bronco/driveshaft/
I used to have a '67 Bronco and had to work on these double-U w/spindle joints. Looks like they call them 'double cardan'. I don't know what else they were/are used on. I don't remember if this joint had the angular rotation issues they talk about in the Thompson Coupling video.
I would like to see them directly compared.
I like the looks of the Thompson Coupling. |
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drjim
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| Yeah, I remember those. I had a buddy with one of the "old" small Broncos and I remember him replacing those. I think the Thompson Joint is configured differently, but without really pouring through their website in detail, I can't visualize exactly how it goes together.
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