2014 $20,000.00 Polaris RZR both the front and rear shafts are out of phase, and they deny it is causing any problems although the complaint is coming from all over the usa??? and i have to put out to have both shafts rephased??? am i thinking right??? thanks for all the help.
Does either end of that arrangement move (up, down, left, right)? It looks like there is almost no misalignment, so if they don't move (and therefore increase the U-joint angles) then it might be OK.
EDIT: Looks like the RZR has indepedent suspension all around, so the only reason those driveshafts have u-joints is to deal with slight misalignments or bushing movement. As long as you're not spacing the diffs or transfer case up or down, that should be fine- the u-joint angles there are negligible.
Looks OK to me.
thats great news thanks, now i can spend the rest of the day putting it back together.
Yeah, when you were talking 4wd I think everyone was picturing solid axles and like 30deg u-joint angles.
cool beans, i knew i would get the answer here.
Everybody else is wrong. The yokes are out of phase, which will cause a vibration at higher speeds. I don't know whether you would ever notice it on a quad, but on a highway vehicle, that thing would blur your vision- unless the shaft runs dead straight.
In reply to Streetwiseguy:
Yup, piss poor engineering, it might not give any problems now, but in a few years when the bushings start to sag, chassis gets tweaked, etc., it probably won't be happy.
Streetwiseguy wrote: Everybody else is wrong. The yokes are out of phase, which will cause a vibration at higher speeds. I don't know whether you would ever notice it on a quad, but on a highway vehicle, that thing would blur your vision- unless the shaft runs dead straight.
some first gen Camaros and Firebirds (67-69) came with the driveshafts built a couple of degrees out of phase on purpose for some reason that eludes me right now... if you put the shafts together backwards so that the wrong joint was "leading" the other one, they would vibrate..
maybe the engineers of these things were attempting the same thing, but didn't bother to tell the people that put them together how the parts were supposed to fit..
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