jacwri
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Joined: July 02, 2017
Posts: 7
Location: Gwinnett, Georgia
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 Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2018 5:23 pm Post subject: Portal Axle...IRS Bus...Tell Me I'm Crazy, Please! |
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Tell me I'm crazy but I may have begun solving the big issue with lifting buses: CV angle. If we could make bolt on portal axles: thus the outer cv joint would connect like 4 inches higher, we could lift way higher before the angle became a wear issue.
Obviously custom fabrication cost and all that, but why wouldn't this work? Axle comes out, connects with standard CV joint at top of portal axle, drives meshed gears directly downward (two types: one with standard direction of 091 transmissions, then one with reversed direction for subaru/other transmissions). where the bottom gear connected to the hub at the same spot the outer CV normally does.
Tell me I'm crazy and shouldn't look into this more. |
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busdaddy
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Joined: February 12, 2004
Posts: 51155
Location: Surrey B.C. Canada, but thinking of Ukraine
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