Best year (and best angles) of CV joints on front driveshafts... tacoma?

[jeffs84runner]

A friend of mine was asking me what year rear driveshaft I have, and I can't remember!?  I knew I bought it from Marlin...

I could remember and told him the whole story of how "back in the day" in 1999 when I drove from San Jose to Fresno to get my dual case adapter from Marlin one night, Marlin offered to put my dual cases together for me, then he proceeded to completely tear them down, clean, and rebuild them with all new hardware, then he said he wouldn't charge me for any of the labor!  What a guy huh!!!!  During this entire rebuild I was able to ask him every question under the sun I could think of, (every question I "couldn't" think from the HOURS he spent on the phone with me in the weeks just prior!).

One of my questions was if I should get a CV front shaft for the rear and if so what year was best.  Well he walked me over to one of the walls, (just inside the front door on the left), and he had tons of shafts leaning up against the wall, all in order from oldest to newest. He then painstakingly explained each and every year shaft and their exact maximum angle.

The answer was basically the early solid axle years were best, but that a newer tacoma (I think 96+), back then for some reason the CV joints could max out almost as good or better as the older solid axle years, (obviously they didn't have to make them this way since IFS doesn't ever move up and down).

Anyway my question is; anyone know the angle the CV's can go from the early tacoma years?  Or anyone have the max angles of toy front shafts?  Link?

Thanks
Jeff
(thanks again Marlin!)

[toysfreak]

I won a hundred bucks on this bet.         The front shaft from a 4CYL truck 89-94 is the same as 84-85 fronts.   Their are plenty of them around,  as compared to the 84-85 style.......And the Tacoma's are plentiful also,  the 2 piece rear shafts were know to have c/v's too.   some moved more than others,  but no machine or guage to test em.  FYI