Over the winter I pulled out my Stan drive shaft & bought the CSC drive shaft upgrade it was about $500. with shipping , It removes that Stupid gear box that's weighs 27LBS with 22 pounds of rotating gears & bearings , It requires removing the complete trike kit to get the gear box out , My trike shifts so much better , better on gas ,rolls better. While it was out the rear shock was leaking $500. from CSC, from QA1 on ebay $125. Repacked the rear axles , cut off the cats & put the torque loop cat eliminators on it , sounds better but I do not think it runs any better ? AND while I had the body off I had it on a rack dragged it outside to get it out of the way turn around to walk back in the barn I hear a crash the body flipped off the rack BOUNCED about three feet in the air & FD Up the other side Looked like it fell off the back of a pickup going down the road at 80 , so I had to repair & paint the body .
The reason I replaced my drive shaft was to get rid of the gear box , nothing wrong with Stans drive shaft , Jonesy stopped by with his 2012 CSC with the new style drive shaft & if left in newtral it would roll away , mine would not roll on a hill . with the new drive shaft it has less pitch on the ujoints than a new rear wheel drive pickup , the gear box just has so much play in it ,it was like a half turn in the drive shaft . As for the body it had some chips & crap from the last owner needed paint anyway , so that made me half to paint it ???
