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posted on 11/3/10 at 07:34 PM

lengthen a de dion axle

am after a de dion axle, just wanted to know if you could lengthen one before i buy one. i noticed the most common ones are the gts ones

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posted on 11/3/10 at 07:38 PM

First question is.. Why do you need to lengthen it?

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posted on 11/3/10 at 07:44 PM

If it's only a small increase that you are looking for it would be a lot easier to use different offset wheels.
Actually lengthening the axle tube would necessitate longer driveshafts too.
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posted on 11/3/10 at 07:47 PM

got a wider chassis, a +442

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posted on 11/3/10 at 07:48 PM

SO you going to lengthen the drive shafts too???

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posted on 11/3/10 at 07:56 PM

As far as i'm aware, the +442 use sierra track, so no need to lengthen?

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posted on 11/3/10 at 08:15 PM

The +442 is a wide chassis which is same track as sierra. I brought a 'wide' GTS de dion axle, it uses standard length sierra drive shafts. The standard (narrow)GTS de dion axle needs the drive shafts shortened...

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posted on 11/3/10 at 10:28 PM

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