Subject: | RE: UJ verses CV joints (What's the main difference?) |
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From: | Randall Young <randallyoung@earthlink.net> |
Date: | Fri, 17 Sep 1999 14:18:19 -0700 |
Cc: | triumphs <triumphs@autox.team.net> |
On Friday, September 17, 1999 5:15 AM, Gernot von Hoegen [SMTP:avac@totalise.co.uk] wrote: > > one little difference, UJ's seem to be stronger by inherent design than cv's. I'm not quite sure what that means, but the FWD Oldsmobile Toronado used CV joints to carry over 1000 ft-lbs of torque, and I've never heard that CV joint failures were particularly common. For that matter, my FWD Chevy has plenty of torque to spin 8" wide tires (or at least it used to <g>), and I've never broken a CV joint ... Randall |
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