Front drive shaft broken

[Nadir5]

Has anyone looked into or considered cut and turn to adjust both the pinion angle and caster?

There's a video on YT where a fabricator discusses this, but it was really costly (tens of thousands) as I recall.

 

[skinny_tom]

There's a video on YT where a fabricator discusses this, but it was really costly (tens of thousands) as I recall.

In the rock crawling world, and heck, even when people put big lifts on their old jeeps, this is a common thing. But mostly it's shade-tree mechanics and low speed operation.

Also worth mentioning, my 2001 Grand Cherokee came with a double cardan on both ends of the front drive shaft (AWD) and I went 185k on a "lifetime" set of joints. Only developed a little shimmy on downhill throttle off at 75 MPH near when I sold it. For that matter. My 1965 Cadillac El Dorado also had a DC at each end of its 6 foot shaft and it was smooth as silk as well.

I suspect that, if everyone pays close attention to all the driveshaft discussions from the experts, that there is no "perfect" solution for our front drive shafts, but there is the expensive DC at both end "best" solution that nobody wants to build.

Mt prediction: In 10 years we will all have one.