The last CV you'll ever need....maybe

[Marlin]

I too might be interested in a set of these, and I have a whole extra front axle set. I wonder if rather than shipping it to Ramairz, why not ship it straight to them, perhaps we could work out a group buy kind of thing. As for missing Uwharrie, you don't have that option, and you dont need to do anything to the VX for that, you could run it bone stock, with some ATs with no problems.

[RamAirZ]

lol duh I meant if I didn't have front shafts in I'd have to wheel it in 2wd lol. I'm not doing anything specifically for Uwharrie, just have some spending money for mods and decided to do what I can now and I can test stuff out there.

[LittleBeast]

I just got off the phone with Craig over there, he wants me to send him my axles so they can reverse engineer them but he thinks they can get it done. I'm going to have to yank my axle out soon then but this gives me an excuse to do the diff drop and a locker install lol. I may have to skip the Uwharrie trip if they can't get something done in time but oh well, might be worth it if we can get some strong axles for a change. I'll keep you guys updated, probably gonna work on getting the axle out on Thursday since I have the whole day off.

There are plenty of people on here (Tom and myself and others) that have an extra set lying around, I don't see any need of you yanking yours out unless no one else is interested.

I can donate my spare set. They need to be reworked (pieces borrowed for my rebuild a cupla years ago). They should be sufficient for his reverse engineering though.

As long as they came out of a VX I got some out of a trooper that were just slighty different (a few mm too narrow to not slip in green cup.

Ya if you want to send them my way we can get this thing started! It shouldn't matter if they are broke as long as they are all together, do you have the inner cups too?

Why would he send them to you in FL? Why not just ship to RCV in IL? Just wondering not trying to be smart or anything I have a whole set of CV's plus cups and all. I will be following this thread.

[RamAirZ]

Ya I don't know why I said send to me, I meant send them off to RCV. That would be dumb to ship to me just to reship to them. I've got his extension and personal number so I can let him know when they ship so he can keep an eye out for them.

[BigSwede]

I think he's referring to "order new from Merlin" prices.

Oh...right.

I guess I'm stuck in junkyard mode...

[BigSwede]

As long as they came out of a VX I got some out of a trooper that were just slighty different (a few mm too narrow to not slip in green cup.

Shouldn't really matter here, as we are talking about replacing the entire axle all the way to the diff.

[RamAirZ]

The driver's side is different I think because we don't have an axle disconnect, now maybe an early inner stub from a truck with manual hubs would swap in since they didn't have that either

[nfpgasmask]

Nice find, Beau. This would be awesome for my Trooper, I would buy them, and then install a 10-bolt Aussie up front and maybe throw on some 35"s.

Bart

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I wonderhow much they will charge us... they are selling CV sets built for other trucks for about $1200+...

[Ascinder]

I wonderhow much they will charge us... they are selling CV sets built for other trucks for about $1200+...

Probably pretty similar I would think, although their demand would likely be lower than most. Sounds like Ramairz has been doing most of the calling and talking to RCV, maybe he'll chime in if they gave him an estimate. I'm more concerned with making sure they're beefy enough to handle anything, and I mean ANYthing we ever dream of mounting up, whether it be full spools or 52" tires. You know once Pandora's box is opened, it's free license to go bat$#[! crazy and someone out there will try it. The next weak link if these come to fruition is likely the transmission/transfercase, so start thinking a little harder about swaps like the 5 speed or a 4L60.

Nice find, Beau. This would be awesome for my Trooper, I would buy them, and then install a 10-bolt Aussie up front and maybe throw on some 35"s.

Bart

I feel like I dropped a pebble in a pond on this one, LOL.

[Marlin]

Combine these with the superflexy IFS mod ....if it ever becomes available.

[RamAirZ]

He wants to see the shaft first and see what they can do and then he said he could give me a quote on it, I'm gonna call him tomorrow and see about a short-run group buy if they can do it and see what he says

[tom4bren]

I'll try to remember to bring in the half shafts tomorrow to box them up & ship them out.

Tom

[Ascinder]

As a quasi-related addition to this thread, I came across THIS today. Ballistic Fabrication is where I got my rod ends from in the "Ascinder's 1 ton VX" post started by ZEUS. Their work is awesome. It seems like they could make up a quality internal winch mount/recovery hardpoint, or something like bolt on skid plates or even beefy diff drop mounts. The sky's the limit. I would venture to say that someone may even be able to get them to produce a "bolt in" style SAS kit. Just think how awesome fabricated trailing arms would be on the VX:


They could do rock sliders the same way or even produce kits to lift the VX like you see on IFS trucks like chevys and toyotas with their diff drop frameworks and fabricated A-arms.. Just need a few enterprising individuals with a measuring tape and some ideas. Sounds like that long travel IFS idea is the perfect candidate for this type of thing.

[RabidPony]

Hmmmm....I bet I could make those....