I know I have seen a couple people talk about this but I couldn't find the posts. Ever since I did my DB lift, in 4WD and when reversing, my front drive line will scrape on the frame cross member. I took my drive line off and just flipped it around and it seems to be working.
It looks like it was scrapping on a weight on the drive line right where the cross member was and I guess just that much clearance was all that was needed.
Does anyone know why this would be a bad idea, switching what side of the drive is connected to the diff and T-case?
you will be fine. and no two driveshafts weights are the same so it was just by chance that the balance weight hit right where your new cross member is.
Mine did the same thing but it was bad enough that I couldn't even drive it. I took that cross member off (yes, it's a total PITA and the bolts were installed by Hercules with a glue gun), heated that spot up with my gas welding torch and took the old BFH to it. Clearance Clarence! Good as new : )
BTW, it's only with the Calmini kit since the Fabtech kit has the retarded front diff mount that Fs up the u-joint angles
It was definitely an f-n pain but I didn't want to have issues with it rubbing or knocking the weight off or worse, having it come apart on me. Also doesn't hurt that I had a 1/2 wobbly socket for my Ingersol to pull the damn bolts off.
Maybe. Still a pretty lousy solution. Eliminating the need for one more step in the install process and the trade off is the possibility of grenading your front diff and a terminal driveline vibration that leads to premature failure of front u-joint. Sounds like a crappy compromise to me : /
My Fabtech kit never operated as smoothly as this kit does. No driveline vibrations whatsoever.
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