V8 guys, take note, Renegade issue...kind of Options

[scotty b]

First off I need to say I do NOT blame this problem solely on Renegade. At this point I suspect this happened because the installer knew just enough to make the Renegade kit work, but not safely. That owu d fall in line with a lot of other almost right issues this car has had. This is now the second time this car has had issues with the CV's coming apart from the adapters. The first time it was the inner CV's, last week he called me about a loud clunking coming from the rear. This was the cause. I feel these were probably not installed correctly the first time as the roll pins were not all the way seated into the adapter, and I had a hell of a time getting the cv completely off. Once the two were seperated I pressed the roll pins in fully and the cv slipped on and off the pins as it should. All of the bolts got locktighted as well. I just thought anyone with a Renegade axle setup needed to be aware of this. IMO going to the 108 cv setup like Jim Kelly is doing is a much better route. It eliminates the adapter piece and gives a much larger cv. It does require 911 shafts, but if you're doing a V8 you need the tranny work done anyway. FWIW, I had not taken any bolt loose when these pics were shot. The 2 bolts that are not engaged at all, came out of the car just like that

[BajaXJ92]

Are we still entirely positive that this is the Renegade setup and not bug/thing adapters like you suspected? IIRC, you mentioned the adapter size is larger than 914 and smaller than 930? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)

From the Renegade site...

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Hard to tell, but it looks like my setup. The previous owner of the car claims that he installed the Renegade axle upgrade.... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)

I'm slowly going through this car trying to get it sorted. I'm finding a lot of little chicken shit issues that someone clearly half-assed along the way. As Scott has said, "they knew just enough to make it work".

I just re-wired and cleanly ran this wiring rat's nest in the front trunk yesterday... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)
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