Drive shafts maintenance

[ORSO]

I'm wondering if they're full CV joints, in which case the angle becomes less significant.

what are CV joints?

 

[Offtrack Traveler]

In the first video Q&A they said it could be flat towed. I specifically asked the question. There are plenty of automatic vehicles that can be flat towed 4 wheels on the ground. I have to say I am disappointed if it requires more than sticking it in neutral.

I also asked that question and was happy they addressed it in the video. Disappointed to find this out also. I suspected this could be the case when I saw more photos of the transfer case shifter with no neutral. Can't flat tow behind a motorhome or other vehicle easily, that takes it off the list for those folks.

 

[Offtrack Traveler]

what are CV joints?

Constant Velocity joints.
A CV joint is a joint designed to transmit even power through a wide range of angles with minimum friction and internal play.

 

[Tom D]

I also asked that question and was happy they addressed it in the video. Disappointed to find this out also. I suspected this could be the case when I saw more photos of the transfer case shifter with no neutral. Can't flat tow behind a motorhome or other vehicle easily, that takes it off the list for those folks.

Not many motor homes will happily tow a 3 ton car… Smart car maybe..

 

[bemax]

Not many motor homes will happily tow a 3 ton car… Smart car maybe..

When driving in the USA I got the feeling that the motor homes there could happily pull an Abram…
This might be connected to the fact that the motor homes in question are probably bigger than the average flat in Germany is.

 

[AZGrenadier]

Some large motor homes in the US will happily tow 25k plus people happily overload small ones here in the good ole USofA

 

[Krabby]

Photo of front prop shaft:
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I was slightly surprised to see the angle the differential nose makes with the propshaft, especially as the axle appears to pointed downwards and so making the join angle greater?

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Interesting-Dana drive shafts.

 

[Miki]

Dana Spicer .... about as good as you can get IMO, plenty of spares available too.
Well done Inios

 

[Krabby]

Dana Spicer .... about as good as you can get IMO, plenty of spares available too.
Well done Inios

Yet they decided against Dana axle assemblies. Just seems interesting.

 

[bemax]

Yet they decided against Dana axle assemblies. Just seems interesting.

@AWo mentioned in another thread that Dana decided against Ineos. Or do I remember wrong?

 

[DCPU]

That's how I remembered it; but if the company is the same, or part of the group, it does make that "fact" a little bit more puzzling.

 

[DCPU]

Dana Spicer .... about as good as you can get IMO, plenty of spares available too.
Well done Inios

And they have a huge diameter.

 

[Krabby]

@AWo mentioned in another thread that Dana decided against Ineos. Or do I remember wrong?

I don't recall seeing that but certainly do not doubt you. I would think that Dana 60s would have been beefy enough and easily modified to fit the Grenadier's setup, but I'm sure those decisions are far more complex than just that.

 

[Offtrack Traveler]

Not many motor homes will happily tow a 3 ton car… Smart car maybe..

Here in the US we have some that will with no issues. A Prevost Bus or Super C (Class 8 truck/semi) motorhome can tow it with no issues at all. I have towed a full size pickup truck at that same weight of a Grenadier with a Prevost Bus and it has little effect to no effect on the bus as it has a 20,000lb tow capacity. Some of the super C's have an even higher tow capacity. Many other motorhomes in North America are rated to tow 5,000 pounds and up.

 

[Miki]

I can just imagine that as you drive through Reading Town centre and then via Milton Keynes (roundabout city) across country to the Fens .... what fun you would have

 

[bemax]

I don't recall seeing that but certainly do not doubt you. I would think that Dana 60s would have been beefy enough and easily modified to fit the Grenadier's setup, but I'm sure those decisions are far more complex than just that.

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