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    Quote Originally Posted by Ascinder View Post
    Updates? With Bigmeat's new super flexy IFS, I'd think people would really start wanting these stronger CV's. I don't how many people watched the videos in his thread, but those A-arm angles are going to eat stock CV's for breakfast. I love that I'm finally seeing some decent hardcore parts becoming available for the VX. Even if it's a little too late for me
    Thats what I was thinking, talking with Joe D about it. Definitely gotta stay out of the skinny pedal if you are flexed out...Plus, looking how much flex he gets, gonna have to remove the inner liners, and perhaps trim the outer cladding...no big deal for me, but for some that is probably a deal breaker, although if you want to keep your VX pretty, this kit kind of defeats the purpose. This would be for an actual trail truck, not a once a year, Tour De Desert truck. Not downing those folks, but to spend that much money and time, for a mod that is gonna require some work to make it effective...I went ahead and did the ball joint flip, low pro bump stops(that really aren't any smaller than the factory stops), got the diff drop brackets in the truck...and I have several spare OEM CVs, so maybe if this EMPI deal goes through, I may liquidate all my spares, and use that as money toward the super fancy CVs.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marlin View Post
    Thats what I was thinking, talking with Joe D about it. Definitely gotta stay out of the skinny pedal if you are flexed out...Plus, looking how much flex he gets, gonna have to remove the inner liners, and perhaps trim the outer cladding...no big deal for me, but for some that is probably a deal breaker, although if you want to keep your VX pretty, this kit kind of defeats the purpose.
    Dont forget that I run 35s and 36 inch tires.... thats where all the trimming is neccesary...
    Folks with 31-33ish tires will not need to remove front the inner fenders with the SUPER FLEXY IFS KIT.

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    Well I'm not really sure what you mean by an axle bar, but I think we are saying the same thing. Yes, I did have a diff drop installed at the time. I did 2.5" if remember correctly, but it might have been 3", it'd been a long time. Even with that my cvs were running constant 30 degree angles just going down the street. I was trying to say in my post above that because of that angle, every time the shaft rotates it cause the balls to do exactly what you are saying-slide back and forth in the cv cups, but it's also causing the cages to move all over the place so they can. If you have a cv with no boot on and look inside when you move it and it's at a high angle you can see this plain as day.
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    I just spoke with Sean at RCV. He is trying to get the detailed measurements from my donated parts & have a cost estimate for us soon.

    LittleBeast - I forgot to ask him how the cage is made better but I'll try to remember next time I talk to him.

    BigSwede - I was thinking about the super flexy thing when I was talking to Sean. He is initially going to price the half shafts without the slip joint added to the center bar (to save on cost). They'll be able to add it if needed for those that are going super flexy. He said that on Uber-lifted Toyotas they typically install longer center bars. I don't think that will work for our set up with super flexy since the stuffed wheel will effectively need a shorter center bar or something could get damaged.

    RamAirZ - I'm not trying to take over - just not sure of your interest since you sold your VX.

    Tom
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