drive shaft /KAD hub problem
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noticed that it looks like the drive shafts are to short and come out too far out of the inner potjoins...

The outer outer ball race is just coming out of the pot joint.

Outer ball race is mounted correctly. the lower adjustable arm is turned incompletely to the end, and its stil to far out, ( if i turn it ou the problem gets bigger)???!! ( got the problem on both sides)

Driveshafts mounted on the correct sides :)

got the alu kad hubs, do i need different drive shafts?? or can there be an other problem??




hope someone can help me out....thanks

have you had the pot joint to bits by anychance?
i had similar thing a few years back it would start and drive ok but on my first hard launch it spun the cage and balls out :(
all i had done is assembled the ball cage back to front ( there is an off set)

Yes i moved to the darkside

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Thanks Brett, but nope.. checked the outher ballrace and it's fitted corectly..... the smaller side of bearing on the outside..

i did read this post
http://www.turbominis.co.uk/forums/index.php?p=vt&tid=327324

you need some better pics up, what is with the welded on ring, also i don't recognise the inner parts of the cv that are in view.

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@ carl... What do you mean with the welded ring?

can you pull the shaft out the pot joint for another pic mate, that looks so much like mine did

pic for a sample

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Edited by Brett on 10th Dec, 2012.

Yes i moved to the darkside

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ill post another pic tomorow evening....

the face of the housing looked like it had a plate welded to it, but now i see that what i thought was some mig weld is in fact the balls hanging out,

have you got the shafts on the right way around, [there is an inner and outer end to them]
although i don't think it would alter the situation


better pics indeed


carl

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Carl I think your looking at the steel zip tie that holds the boot on

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some more pics.... i can't notice anything wrong ??!!

Im out of ideas then :(

Yes i moved to the darkside

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Have you talked to KAD? There maybe a know fix for the hubs.

yup did sent KAD an email but not an answer yet...

But some people here have the KAD hubs as wel i guess....

But i never heard about this problem

contacted KAD. They've never had that problem and it all should fit fine...

did some further searching... noticed the folowing..

a standard upper left arm has the number 21A2691 on it...

mine has the number 21A2693.... Cant find that number anywhere on the net??
don't know if that could cause the problem

Looking at your build thread, you have lots of camber. Might be worth getting your suspension roughly aligned, see if it tightens things up.

@apbellamy.... yup lots off negative camber....
Yesterday i turned the bottomarms( the adjustable with spherical eyes) in till the end ( to positive) and its stil way to much....

Check it again with the car at ride height

I seriously doubt it!

I'm not convinced they are the correct potjoints.

Metric is for people who can't do fractions.

Schrödinger's cat - so which one am I ???

They look identical to any Ive seen

I seriously doubt it!

Schrödinger's cat - so which one am I ???

Edited by theoneeyedlizard on 11th Dec, 2012.

In the 13's at last!.. Just

looking at the pic above there seems to be a bigger lip after the rebate is this your problem making the pot joint shorter

Edited by dig-mini on 11th Dec, 2012.

Craig

my mini van http://www.turbominis.co.uk/forums/index.php?p=vt&tid=448248

Inside view of a couple of standard ones, balls are frightenly close to the outer edge anyway from the wear marks,



But no evidence of the machining marks on the very first photo (ignore my nachining at the back face of the right hand/top one, that's for the TC sensor ring)



The outer edge of the very first photo just doesn't look the same.

Schrödinger's cat - so which one am I ???

On 11th Dec, 2012 theoneeyedlizard said:

Edited by paul wiginton on 11th Dec, 2012.

I seriously doubt it!