Breaking front drivelines like toothpicks, what to do?
 

I'm breaking front drivelines like toothpicks. Shatters the CV everytime since the lift slightly overextends and over angles it.

At 40$ a pop from the JY my habit is getting spendy. :(

I've been thinking about trying to find a shop that will make me a custom driveline with two U joints instead. However I am concerned that at high speeds the U joint may fail (hence the factory CV) because I'm pretty sure my front driveline is always spinning.

Does anyone have any suggestions? maybe a good shop in the NW? I'm all ears?

I've heard from multiple shops that our blazers are quite weak when it comes to the front end. You might need some higher end parts to keep everything solid up front. Your experience with multiple drivelines seems to back up their claims. I don't personally have any experience with problems like this because I baby my blazer to limit the issues with it.

The front end is solid (knock-on-wood) its just the link between the two. Synergy offroad used to offer a custom front driveline, but I don't think they sell them anymore due to the u-joint vs CV high speed issue i mentioned.

The big issue is that the superlift 6" kit drops the front diff about half way so the driveline ends up overextended (~2inches) and over angled. this lines up the CV to basically be in its weakest position.

I have heard rumors of custom high angle CVs, but never seen one. Thoughts?

youre breaking the actual front driveshaft? when i had a s10 with 33s i snapped cv joints like crazy. almost everytime i turned the wheel in 4wd.

maybe you can use a k5 blazer front driveshaft. it has that double u- joint set up. thats what im running in my s10 with a k5 blazer axle up front, never broke one. heck i never broke one when i was running 38 inch tires with a 6 inch lift on a 6000lb suburban