Got my Sye on. Picked my front Driveshaft up from junkyard. Put it on the rear and it seems to be fully extended at ride height. Rough country 3 inch leafs with extended shackles so I'm guessing 4-4.5in lift. Driveshaft fully extended eye to eye measures around 35 1/4.
231 transfer. 4.0 auto c8.25.

Am I missing something or is this just an odd happening.

 

I'm not seeing splines do I don't know how you're fully extended.....

 

Well I was unable to get it to extend any farther then what it is, and lifting the tires off the ground didn't extend it any more then ride height. In this picture you can see the start of splines, so I'm assuming it will extend more then this safely?

 

Is it the same length as your stock front DS?

 

Yea I measured to make sure they gave me one out of an automatic because the full service yard was cheaper and its the same size.

 

Mine is fine with 4 inches of lift. What SYE do you have.

 

Standard length rugged Ridge.

 

I have the 4.0 auto c8.25 242 tc and a hack n tap that I had to cut down to the bare minimum for the stock shaft to work. It was almost to long.

 

Seems to be a lot of differing opinions out there. I almost did the same (buy a used front shaft from the JY before my install) But I decided to do the install first. Installed the AA SYE and my front shaft wasn't even close to being long enough. I'm at about 3 to 3-1/2" lift on my 98' manual trans. Mine measured 35" from yoke face to yoke face. Which means I had to have a drive shaft made.

 

Manual trans is shorter then an auto, so it sort of makes sense that yours was too short.

Yea I mean to me that looks to short, but I don't know how much more splines are left for it to extend more. I'm thinking a GC shaft may be a better option for me.

 

If at all in doubt.. (If it were me) get your measurement and take it to a DL shop. If anything you'll have piece of mind that it's the proper length,

 

I'll call and see what they want, but it's a woods buggy that will never see pavement so looking to keep it within a budget. But also don't want to hurt the transfer case with this shaft.

 

Can anyone confirm that with the splines showing like in the picture that it's at the end of its extension?

 

You could have used a front ds out of a grand Cherokee with the 249 t case those are about 34" collapsed.


XJ 87/88 2.5 Automatic 27.950 53003912
XJ 89/93 2.5 Automatic 27.970 53005540
XJ 89/01 2.5 Manual 25.310 53005541
XJ 89/01 4.0 Automatic 30.660 53005542
XJ 89/01 4.0 Manual 29.250 53005543
XJ 89/00 4.0 Manual 27.080 Export 53005544
XJ 89/00 4.0 Automatic 28.620 Export 53005545
XJ 87/88 4.0 Automatic Export 53005260 *
XJ 95/01 Diesel 27.640 Export 52098208

ZJ 1993 4.0 Automatic 30.530 52098341
ZJ 93/95 5.2 Automatic 32.870 w/o CV 53008427
ZJ 94/95 5.2 A500 30.625 w/o CV 52087805
ZJ 94/95 4.0 A500 w/o CV 52098790
ZJ 93/96 4.0 Manual 52098344
ZJ 93/96 4.0, 5.2 31.875 w/ 231, 242 52087805
ZJ 93/95 4.0 Manual 30.000 w/231 52088090
ZJ 93/96 5.2 33.000 w/ 231 53008427
ZJ 96/98 5.2, 5.9 31.250 w/ 249 & Model 30 52098379
ZJ 1996 5.2 Automatic 32.875 w/ 249 & Model 30 52098501
ZJ 96/98 4.0 33.000 w/ 242 52098707
ZJ 96/97 4.0 Automatic 31.250 52098850
ZJ 1996 5.2 Automatic 30.750 w/ 249 & Model 30 52099246
ZJ 96/98 4.0 33.500 w/ 249 52099260

 

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