Its at full lock, you can feel it rubbing the sway bar. Noting too extreme, just have to be aware of it

 

I would say that cranking the torsion bars this much on an AWD vehicle would definitely prove to be costly later on....the CV axle has to be on an extreme angle..

 

do it...

 

I would tend to disagree; the CV is designed to work within a certain range of motion. By cranking the bars you are still well within the safe working limits of that range, there should not be any adverse affects outside of normal wear and tear. If you think about it the vehicle can easily move much more than 2 inches up or down to accommodate highway bumps at high speeds.

The only way you are going to jeopardize this is by extending the shocks or creating another condition where the suspension is allowed to travel down further than it is designed for.

 

This subject has been hashed and rehashed over the years and although the cv is designed to operate in the range of motion that the suspension and steering allow, the longevity of the cv is reduced if it operates continually at the outer limit of its range. The cv boots definitely don't last as long as evidenced by the failure rate on the vehicals that are torsion cranked, also it is a proven fact with a cv or U-joint, that the steeper the angle that it operates at the weaker it is. Which means that if it's operating at a steeper angle it is more likely to break when loaded hard.

 

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