Jeep Liberty Heavy Duty CV Axles

KJ2005 · **Joined:** Wed Aug 08, 2007 1:05 am **Posts:** 27

On a previous post: http://www.lostjeeps.com/forum/phpBB3/vie ... hp?t=25101
I asked about estimate from a SFA swap. Thanks again for all that replied.

This is out of my budget for now, but even with a 2.5” lift I have to look into this link: http://www.reeldriveline.com/ for Heavy Duty CV axles, either before or after mine wear down.

Here’s a side track, when I installed my lift among other things, a cb boot was ripped, I took it into the dealer to get alignment, a new boot, etc…
Two weeks later the clamp on the new cv boot pops off, The JEEP dealer says that they can not secure a clamp not even for that day because it keeps coming off, they put a plastic tie down and said there’s nothing they can do because of the lift, which is understandable, but on the same conversation, the service rep says my cv is worn down again from my lift and understandable, but he tries to sell my on replacing the axle for 800.00… My question to the dealer is why it takes a new 800.00 axle swap to secure a cv boot on? The New 800.00 axle will still be on the same angle as the worn out used one is now. Just broke my trust again with dealership service, trying to sell you something that doesn’t solve the problem you went in for.

My solution get my own cv boot clamp, since they were out I clamped a radiatore like hose clamp and it holds solid even after a day of offroading. Couldn’t they atleast put that on instead of a tie town that would surely be off in another two weeks?

Back to the post, it did get me motivated to look into SFA swaps and even just heavy duty CV axles since I’m not going on any hard core trails with the liberty.

I called the guys from the link above, they told me to ship them the two front axles and it’s estimated about 375.00 per axle, which is definitely in my budget more so than a SFA swap. Even though it doesn’t include labor of replacing the CVs to me it sounds more appealing to have two heavy duty CV axles (no labor) for less then the price of parts and labor at the dealer to replace one stock axle that’s weak and causing the problem to begin with.

So finally my real question. Has anyone purchased Heavy Duty CV font axles from these guys or anyone else? This could be a good upgrade for all 2-2.5” lifts and probably a requirement if you’re even thinking about a jeepin by al’s 4” lift. They said others with lifted Liberty’s have.

wildrussian · **Posted:** Tue Oct 09, 2007 7:03 am

I got Rustys lift that turned out to be around 2.5" and my CV angles don't look stressed at all. My questions is, is it worth upgrading to the heavey duty CV axles with having a weak front end housing?

Wasatch15 · **Joined:** Wed Jul 13, 2005 7:52 am **Posts:** 242

I just wanted to let you know that I had a problem with the drivers side CV boot and when I replaced the small boot clamp, whatever type and brand of clamp I tried, they would just break and pop off. In desperation I installed a pipe type clamp like you stated and it has stayed on ever since (weird). I talked to J.E Reel quite some time ago about their shafts. The guy on the phone said the CV housing is stronger than my stock one but won't help if the CV angle is too much, seems CV's can only handle around 22 degrees max flex. I also talked to Heather (AllJ's) about their Frankenlift I had installed. I was having a weird rotating noise and couldn't pin it down, I thought it may be from the CV's, turned out to be the front drive shaft. Before you spend the bucks on those shafts you may want to compare your CV angles with others that have the same type lift. You may be better off spending the $$ on other upgrades.

CD · **Posted:** Tue Oct 09, 2007 7:42 am

wildrussian wrote:

I got Rustys lift that turned out to be around 2.5" and my CV angles don't look stressed at all. My questions is, is it worth upgrading to the heavey duty CV axles with having a weak front end housing?

I've wondered that myself, if the design of the CV is weak is it like that because it's cheaper to replace a busted CV than a busted front diff. I could be wrong but getting stronger CV's will just move the pressure along the axle into the front diff where it will cop it & may bust under that transfered pressure that should never have arrived. Perhaps they are ment to work that way.

I've not had any experience with heavey duty CV's, but I'm interested in one that is designed to give more of an angle when at full drop or stuff. It's probably been asked & replyed to many many times but is there an other CV joint that can provide us with extra flex that's being used in another 4x4.

Jeepjeepster · **Posted:** Tue Oct 09, 2007 1:48 pm

How many people have actually had trouble with cv's though? Tons of rigs are lifted on this site and I hardly hear of anyone having troubles. it seems like Jeep did something right and put some decent cv joints on the liberty.

I thought I had a bad cv joint, but after taking the front suspension apart to inspect while finding nothing wrong, it went away.

Jeep Liberty Heavy Duty CV Axles

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