IRIE Products

[snowman13]

Sir, I did NOT spend my day at work looking for this pic....I did see one of the derwood, I assume that it would bolt up, just didn't know if anyone had posted a pic and if there were any issue, such as needing to countersink screws etc. By the way Sir Irie my lil twin hammers is laying sprawled out on the table waiting for your shafts. dirty minded people in here may get excited with that thought

[perfictsib]

irie
after seeing your picture of how you bent the drive shaft, i checked my kit TH which is mostly standard with laydown shocks the hd outdrives hit the lower arms before the shocks bottom out (they wont bottom out because of the arms hitting the outdrives) there is a nice shiny ring around both outdrives and a small notch in the arms.
also looking at how far out of the outdrives the shafts sit when the shocks are fully extended compared to when fully compressed (mine wont) the shafts are in the outdrive lots (mine are about a dogbone pin away from bottoming out in the outdrives) you may have to limit upwards travel to stop bending any more shafts.
the suspension/driveshaft design doesnt allow for the shafts to come back out of the outdrives on upwards travel,

if a nice company would please start producing sliding shafts that would cure the fault and increase it performance.

[Sr.Irie]

Originally Posted by perfictsib

irie
after seeing your picture of how you bent the drive shaft, i checked my kit TH which is mostly standard with laydown shocks the hd outdrives hit the lower arms before the shocks bottom out (they wont bottom out because of the arms hitting the outdrives) there is a nice shiny ring around both outdrives and a small notch in the arms.
also looking at how far out of the outdrives the shafts sit when the shocks are fully extended compared to when fully compressed (mine wont) the shafts are in the outdrive lots (mine are about a dogbone pin away from bottoming out in the outdrives) you may have to limit upwards travel to stop bending any more shafts.
the suspension/driveshaft design doesnt allow for the shafts to come back out of the outdrives on upwards travel,

if a nice company would please start producing sliding shafts that would cure the fault and increase it performance.

I have clearanced the lower arms for the hd outdrives so they do not hit the arm and I get full travel. My shocks limit the travel right to the limit of the axles travel in the out drive. In normal situations it can not bend the axle but when it bent my nephew and I were not really treating it normal. We were jumping it of his POS boony crasher geo metro, it was taking landings from 20 feet or more in the air. It really was straight up abuse but allot of fun.
I really was not surprised something got damaged it was more of how with nothing else broke.

[perfictsib]

so mine should last a long time i dont intend doing 20ft jumps.




(santa said hes bringing me some irie bits)

[Stets]

I don't do 20' jumps either. But It does take some decent tumbles down rocks

[geargrinder]

Can you point me in the direction to get the steering kit that fits the GCM tower

[ndi_guy]

Originally Posted by geargrinder

Can you point me in the direction to get the steering kit that fits the GCM tower

Send a PM to Sr. Irie and he will hook you up.

[Sr.Irie]

Originally Posted by ndi_guy

Send a PM to Sr. Irie and he will hook you up.

Thanks man for the help. My computer is down and doing this stuff on my phone is a real pain in the ,well you know.

[Sr.Irie]

Irie's Race Prepped Axles are in stock, get them while they last.

I think I have contacted everyone that was waiting, but if I missed you I do apologize I have been having computer issues.

[Danners]

Originally Posted by Sr.Irie

I have clearanced the lower arms for the hd outdrives so they do not hit the arm and I get full travel. My shocks limit the travel right to the limit of the axles travel in the out drive. In normal situations it can not bend the axle but when it bent my nephew and I were not really treating it normal. We were jumping it of his POS boony crasher geo metro, it was taking landings from 20 feet or more in the air. It really was straight up abuse but allot of fun.
I really was not surprised something got damaged it was more of how with nothing else broke.

I've contacted GCM about other front end problems with my twin at higher speeds. The higher speed and big jumps are what this vehicle doesn't like :( that's why I kept mine as a dedicated crawler. Biggest issue is the front a arms bend easly thus changing all of the front end geometry no matter how well calibrated. Maybe aluminum controll arms are the way to go for all the guys having any CV issues.

[Sr.Irie]

Well some time back I said I was working on the bent tower issue. After 2 tries that did not even make it off bench testing. I have one that I can take out and beat the he77 out of, on the TH. If all goes well no more bent towers WOOOOHOOO.
Here is a teaser pic before the beating.

[rockslyder]

ooow oooooh me first!

[Sr.Irie]

Well the tower held up tell I started jumping it and doing back flips and such, then it broke. I have 2 other formulas done ready to try but the weather turned, when it stops raining I will give some more a try.

[Sr.Irie]

Since it rained with wind gusts up to 50 MPH today and I did not want to go outside to test anything. I made up 2 more different formulas to test. So now I have 4 to beat on as soon as the weather breaks.

[Sr.Irie]

Originally Posted by rockslyder

ooow oooooh me first!

Actually yota4x4 is first but if you are serious send me a PM and I can put you on the list to contact when I get them figured out.

[Sr.Irie]

Here is a short clip of testing. I would have allot more footage but I did not check my camera setting and this about all the footage that was usable. Just imagine crashing on purpose for a half an hour.

[Rastaman]

So I just got back from being gone for two weeks and sitting in my mailbox patiently waiting for me were those cvd's.. I now have them in my possession, and they will be installed this week sometime and a good bashing will commence...lol..

[rockslyder]

How's the testing going? Can't wait to see what you come up with

[rcmike09]

I'm interested in your gcm steering kit. I have p med you and hope to get a set. Thanks

[Sr.Irie]

Originally Posted by rockslyder

How's the testing going? Can't wait to see what you come up with

I believe I have got the right combination for the material I will be using. With the holidays and my 1:1 Bronco project being a pain in the butt I have not had much time lately. I have only ran it twice (2 hours or so) but was not able to break it. Also I sent my 5 year old and a friends son 10 years old out unsupervised with both my hammers and it came back unbroken as well. I do need to remake the mold I am using to alleviate a little problem that is cosmetic, but I do believe I have got it. I need to make some time.

Originally Posted by rcmike09

I'm interested in your gcm steering kit. I have p med you and hope to get a set. Thanks

I have sent you a PM with payment instructions