RE: UJ verses CV joints (What's the main difference?)

[Randall Young <randallyoung@earthlink.net>]

On Friday, September 17, 1999 5:15 AM, Gernot von Hoegen 
[SMTP:avac@totalise.co.uk] wrote:
>
> one little difference, UJ's seem to be stronger by inherent design than 
cv's.

I'm not quite sure what that means, but the FWD Oldsmobile Toronado used CV 
joints to carry over 1000 ft-lbs of torque, and I've never heard that CV 
joint failures were particularly common.

For that matter, my FWD Chevy has plenty of torque to spin 8" wide tires 
(or at least it used to <g>), and I've never broken a CV joint ...

Randall