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Americas Front Driveshaft CV redesign

Commodore

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Ineos crew, there is an issue with the front driveshaft CV at the transfer case side. The acute driveline angle generates heat causing the rubber on the CV to rip and spill grease. This leads to failure of the CV joint and ultimately immediate loss of forward propulsion. The failures have been well documented. Do you have plans to redesign this part or should owners start looking for their own permanent solutions?

This is a serious safety concern that needs to be resolved.
 
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Ineos crew, there is an issue with the front driveshaft CV at the transfer case side. The acute driveline angle generates heat causing the rubber on the CV to rip and spill grease. This leads to failure of the CV joint and ultimately immediate loss of forward propulsion. The failures have been well documented. Do you have plans to redesign this part or should owners start looking for their own permanent solutions?

This is a serious safety concern that needs to be resolved.
Lynn didn't have the answer to hand but we discussed the CV joint boots failing by the nature of them operating at their extremes in terms of deflection. She took it back to her engineering team and they replied today.

Propshaft angle a hot topic from...
Stu,

They gave a status update that indicated that they where going to discuss this internally. This to me indicates a follow-up is forthcoming, or at least that is how I understand the status update. Should that be marked complete? Seems like it's not even partially complete.

"We shall talk about it" just doesn't feel even like a partial answer.

Personally I have taken the stance that the rzeppa joint is a consumable. Every 30-50k miles it needs to be replaced. I'm traveling with one as as a spare part. Unsatisfying but all other options are worse.
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Personally I have taken the stance that the rzeppa joint is a consumable. Every 30-50k miles it needs to be replaced. I'm traveling with one as as a spare part. Unsatisfying but all other options are worse.
Treating the rzeppa as a consumable is the best option at this time. I am taking the same approach but plan to proactively replace the joint every 15K miles/third oil change. Might be overkill but I would prefer to avoid a failure while on a trip in the back country. Even then carrying a spare is definitely a must.
 
Treating the rzeppa as a consumable is the best option at this time. I am taking the same approach but plan to proactively replace the joint every 15K miles/third oil change. Might be overkill but I would prefer to avoid a failure while on a trip in the back country. Even then carrying a spare is definitely a must.
Agreed. I have one in my roof mounted alubox with the rest of the recovery gear when going on longer trips.
 

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