Our cars use a companion flange and U-joint adapter to connect the rear u-joint on the drive shaft to the rear end pinion.
There is a fair amount of discussion online on mustang and 4x4 sites about this type of connection being inferior to a yoke and the companion flanges/adapters failing although I cant find alot of discussion about actual failures.
I'm building the new solid axle rear and was hoping to reuse my existing driveshaft and companion flange/adapter setup. Now I'm not sure the driveshaft length works but should I be replacing the companion flange anyway regardless of whether the drive shaft works or not.
Car is about 3200# and makes over 500rwhp.
Strange makes a forged chromoly yoke where the u-joint is retained with u-bolts for about $100 and Mark Williams also makes a billet piece that has bearing caps to retain the u-joint in stead of u-bolts (SEXY) but its more like $300. Both of these options use the 1350 u-joints.
Strange:
http://www.jegs.com/i/Strange+Engineering/873/U1630/10002/-1
Mark Williams:
http://www.markwilliams.com/detail.aspx?ID=306
http://www.markwilliams.com/detail.aspx?ID=1788
I'll spend the money if it's worth doing but I've never heard of one of our companion flanges or u-joints failing so I'm thinking it might not be worth the extra $$.
There is a fair amount of discussion online on mustang and 4x4 sites about this type of connection being inferior to a yoke and the companion flanges/adapters failing although I cant find alot of discussion about actual failures.
I'm building the new solid axle rear and was hoping to reuse my existing driveshaft and companion flange/adapter setup. Now I'm not sure the driveshaft length works but should I be replacing the companion flange anyway regardless of whether the drive shaft works or not.
Car is about 3200# and makes over 500rwhp.
Strange makes a forged chromoly yoke where the u-joint is retained with u-bolts for about $100 and Mark Williams also makes a billet piece that has bearing caps to retain the u-joint in stead of u-bolts (SEXY) but its more like $300. Both of these options use the 1350 u-joints.
Strange:
http://www.jegs.com/i/Strange+Engineering/873/U1630/10002/-1
Mark Williams:
http://www.markwilliams.com/detail.aspx?ID=306
http://www.markwilliams.com/detail.aspx?ID=1788
I'll spend the money if it's worth doing but I've never heard of one of our companion flanges or u-joints failing so I'm thinking it might not be worth the extra $$.