New set has arrived! Front shaft uppgrade *Finland-Fix*

[325ixa]

only problem that i have is how do i send it from here Finland and how should we arrange payment? Will i collect all together and send to one person who shares them around there? or will i send every shaft invidually?

price for europe?

[Northern]

Probably cheapest to send everything in one shipment, but since I'm not in the U.S., I'd pay a little extra to get mine shipped direct.

[jute91]

only problem that i have is how do i send it from here Finland and how should we arrange payment? Will i collect all together and send to one person who shares them around there? or will i send every shaft invidually?

[jP4]

Add me as an interested person.

[jute91]

ok.

im getting the correct steel on next week, ill be adding the crease fitting into it. steel that im using is IMACRO M, its tempering steel, new mixture that has same strength than T4140, but its easier to machine and weld, thanks to lower Carb %, but it has 4 times that much Chrome than T4140 which makes it stiff...

T4140:
0.43 % C, 0.30 % Si, 0.70 % Mn, 0.035 % S, 1.10 % Cr, 0.20 % Mo

IMACRO M:
0.06% C, 0.30 % Si, 1.00 % Mn, 0.035 % S, 4.00 % Cr

i ordered some extra so i can make it for you too :) ill be posting picture when its ready..

[alloydix]

I'm interested

[Bmjpv]

front d/shaft

Yes I'm also a buyer for and upgraded front shaft with a grease fitting built in. Joe

[Northern]

If this gets made and is a reasonable price, I'm in.

Would pay more if its easy to grease.

[nomansland92]

I'd be interested in something like this if start selling them.

[spdracrm3]

the grease zerk thing has been done on the extended shafts ,i remember reading about it on the IX yahoo group when i first started looking into getting an IX ,the fellow said it worked well and didnt cause any imbalance. just hollowed out and cross drilled/tapped for zirk fitting ,and i think he took the zirk out and just left a plug in the hole when not greasing it.

[Northern]

That would be great also, not sure how easy it would be to have it evenly grease the splines though.

[jute91]

hmmn.. i had an idea... maybe if i could add grease nipple to shaft, hich would lead the grease to splines? well more work, but make service easier...

[Northern]

I like this, but if you could make something like what chris is suggesting, it would be even better.

[jute91]

well i have read about that mod... check the topic opening links... its just 6mm more... but its not a big thing for me to remove hole t-case :D now when i know how to do it...

[nando]

the important thing is definitely keeping them greased though. that's why I suggested some sort of flange or collapsable section like the rear driveshaft. The biggest problem with longer splines is you can't easily remove the shaft to inspect the lubrication. Even with longer spline engagement, without lubrication the splines will still fail.

one thing I wanted to mention about how you've removed the "wasted" spline that doesn't actually stick into the transfercase - the problem with this is if you use a thicker flex disc, or a spacer, to push the shaft further into the transfercase, you don't get to use that extra spline engagement. and actually for the bigger HP builds a thicker flex disc and X5 centering pin make a lot of sense anyway.