Driveshaft with CV joint

[thedrip]

I know its a little 'light' for the center of gravity forum, but the people in here are the most likely to know.

In a CV joint as part of a driveshaft, I found a connector (ball & socket) between the two parts of the driveshaft. Its inside of the CV assembly, and seems to equalize the angle of the two ujoints. Is this ball & socket nessecary for the proper operation of the CV joint.

I'm looking into building a driveshaft with a CV, so I need to know if I need to integrate the yokes with this ball & socket cast into them, or if I can just use standard yokes on each end of the CV, and the "coupler", and have it all work right.

 

[az-k5]

The ball and socket are what makes a CV work the way it does. Without it you would just have a triple u-joint driveshaft and that would whip aroun like crazy.

 

[thedrip]

Thats what I thought when I took one apart last night, first time I've torn a CV down. Thanks for verifying that for me.