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How to keep you pinion right with a 2-link

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huskerdually   +1y
As we all know with a 2-link your pinion angle changes with ride height, so if you set it at ride height whenever you go up and down your pinion angle is incorrect. Well I was doing some reading the other day and I seen if you run a cv joint at the transmission end you are supposed to have the pinion pointed at the output of the tranny. So if you ran a cv joint and set the pinion pointed at the tranny and then could run your link bars so that the front pivot was the same as the front cv joint your pinion angle would always be right no matter what the height. Now that doesn't fix the rest of the 2-link shortcomings but it would fix the biggest one for our type of vehicle.

Now it probably wont really work with our cc duallys due to the fact you would have to have 8' long link bars. But I had this epiphany and thought I would share.

Now bow before me.
dropd80s   +1y
You wouldn't need 8' bars if you ran a two piece drive line, and a double cardan.
Now bow before me.....
jcampbell1180   +1y
I had to R&R my rear U-joint this weekend.

Kinda sucked but it wasn't that bad. Mrs. Campy was pissed at me anyhow, so at least it kept me out of the house (read: warpath) for a while.
huskerdually   +1y
No they wouldn't, but it was kinda exaggeration.

Mrs. Husker was sick all weekend.
huskerdually   +1y
Did it fix your vibration?
jcampbell1180   +1y
Yup.

Drove it to work this fine, brisk SoCal morning.
dragnasty   +1y
I always set mine up where the drive shaft runs straight with the rearend yoke at ride height. Before everyone tells me Im wrong and thats stupid, F ya, it works for me and Ive neer had driveline vibrations or worn out Ujoints.
huskerdually   +1y


What 60? It's not getting above 40 here today, was 20 when I drove to work.
jcampbell1180   +1y


Funny...that's how mine is.
jcampbell1180   +1y


It was 35-ish when I left this morning. 'Bout 70 right now.

I may dislike parts of this state...but I love the weather.

Rust? What's that?