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Old 12-10-2013, 04:57 PM
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Originally Posted by adricar1 View Post
I have asked the same question on the tubing for the rear drive shafts. A collegue of mine designs the shafts for gkn here in the uk. He has told me that 3 inch tube is no stronger then the old dog bone steel shafts. Its the uj that will go first, on the dogbone.
You know, from just eyeballing them, the solid shafts seem stronger. I don't remember seeing any pics of these twisted or broken. It's always the stubs, or the u-joints, which I believe are Spicer 1410 here on mine, that go.


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