Thread: Roving tracks CVs has anyone had experience

Originally Posted by uninformed

Im pretty sure the RT are just spline cut on the ends from the closest size blank.

Happy to be corrected???

They are wasted. Lucky8 Llc. - Take the road less traveled... Not sure why I'm the only one how can look something up.

Originally Posted by Red90

They are wasted. Lucky8 Llc. - Take the road less traveled... Not sure why I'm the only one how can look something up.

Thanks for that. I pretty sure I have seen pics of non waisted RT axle shafts also? maybe they have changed the design. But even then going by those not so clear pics, it would seem that one end is not waisted down and that the transtions are a little aburpt…

Slunnie, I was refering to the axle shafts, not CVs. I know that RCV is/was making the CVs for both RT and Ashcroft, but no idea on the axle shaft side of things. I would have thought Ashcroft be making theirs in house?

Pretty sure mine are non waisted

Originally Posted by Red90

You seem confused. The Rovingtrack axle/CV set is designed ONLY for later model front axles, that were 24/32/24. They are not intended to fit earlier axles.

You are probably talking about some other product the Rovingtracks sold when they were in business....not the topic of this thread. Rovingtracks is not in business. He simply helped Lucky8 get more of the front axle/CV late model sets built.

Yeah I forgot to include the word 'axles' in the first sentence. My bad. I told Keith I wanted to fit them to an '85 110 with Ashcroft ATB, he supplied the axles to suit. But they didn't suit as they didn't fit the swivel.
I don't have experience with Roving Tracks CVs, but after the problems I have had with their axles and after sales lack of service I wouldn't consider them a worthwhile purchase at all.

Originally Posted by Deefa

Wow $400 shipping seams over the top! What do ashcroft charge as a rule for shipping for a pair to Oz?

I recently bought Ashcroft CV's and half shafts. Without breaking it down (don't have the numbers at hand) it was $1,635 total cost incl CV's & half shafts, exchange rate, cartage, customs, GST, TNT handling fees. You can get the Ashcroft CV's and hi-tough axles from Les Richmond for about the same price add cost of cartage to your house. You might save $100 buying from Ashcroft direct compared to LRA. It's the sundry costs that adds up buying from the UK.

Another thing to consider is warranty. No question Ashcroft stand by their product but you don't have any legal recourse. Buying in Australia you preserve the statutory warranties for fitness for purpose that are in the Consumer Law nationally and the state equivalents (if they still operate after the Consumer Law inception. In NSW the relevant provisions of the Fair Trading Act were repealed but the implied warranties in the Sale of Goods Act remain in force).

MLD

Here is a picture of the then "Rover Tracks" axles.And they are 31spline outers

Originally Posted by LowRanger

Here is a picture of the then "Rover Tracks" axles.And they are 31spline outers

And they look nothing like the Lucky8 ones in the original post. Rovingtracks ones had no ABS ring, and CV shape is quite different.
The photo you posted does look the same as the one that was on the Roving Tracks site (check out archive.org if anyone wants to see for them self).

IMO, unless someone has personal experience with this particular Lucky8 product any reference to the old Roving Tracks gear is irrelevant and they should be treated as a new unproven product regardless of who was supposedly involved in their design/manufacture.

Steve

Originally Posted by steveG

And they look nothing like the Lucky8 ones in the original post. Rovingtracks ones had no ABS ring, and CV shape is quite different.
The photo you posted does look the same as the one that was on the Roving Tracks site (check out archive.org if anyone wants to see for them self).

IMO, unless someone has personal experience with this particular Lucky8 product any reference to the old Roving Tracks gear is irrelevant and they should be treated as a new unproven product regardless of who was supposedly involved in their design/manufacture.

Steve

Yes I agree they are quite different. The photos on the Lucky 8 site are not quite clear enough to count how many splines, but I don't think its 31 spline.

The price is attractive as it includes the half shafts but as you say it really is an unproven product.