I'm getting ready build myself a custom long-travel front drive shaft. Using some 1-11/16 20-spline agro-shaft...

I was rumaging through my pile of junk, looking for a yoke to use on the end of the shaft. A couple buddies of mine that have done this have just cut down a drive-shaft slip yoke, I was thinking of useing a t-case or pinion yoke, till it doned on me that the pinion yokes use u-bolts to hold the u-joint in, and a d-shaft usually is press fit...



Any reason a CAN'T or DON'T WANT TO use a u-bolt syle yoke on both sides of a u-joint?? It may even make it easier to install [the front, t-case side of the driveshaft].

Go square or go home :flipoff2: http://www.wt4wheeling.com/welndmn/images/weekends/9.9.01rocktoads/squareshaft.jpg

It bangs around and makes noise on the street, but with the radio up I don't even know it's there.

Originally posted by jdjanda
Go square or go home :flipoff2
It bangs around and makes noise on the street, but with the radio up I don't even know it's there.


:laughing: That's SICK.....

But, I like it. :D :D :D

Originally posted by jdjanda
Go square or go home :flipoff2: http://www.wt4wheeling.com/welndmn/images/weekends/9.9.01rocktoads/squareshaft.jpg

It bangs around and makes noise on the street, but with the radio up I don't even know it's there.

dont you just unlock your hubs to stop teh noise? or do you need 4wd to get around town? :eek: jiMMy

Originally posted by The Jerk
dont you just unlock your hubs to stop teh noise? or do you need 4wd to get around town? :eek: jiMMy

No it makes noise when it's in 2wd drive because there is no tension on the line. It makes a lot more noise when it's in 2wd drive with the hubs locked, because the line is being turned by the axle but not the case. In 4wd drive the line is under tension and it's quite, I have not had it over 30 Mph so I don't know how it will perform at 65, but I doubt it'll be vibe free. Make sense:question:

You got to love the slip, about 20 inches :D

Originally posted by jdjanda
Go square or go home :flipoff2:



GOD DANM IT jdjanda.


I KNEW you would pipe up with you damn squre shaft :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

If I wanted SQUARE, I would have asked about SQUARE :rolleyes:



I ain't no back-woods-red neck-inbread fabricator like SOME people :D :D


course, the question still remains, weather the tube is splined or square....

Originally posted by jdjanda
Go square or go home :flipoff2: http://www.wt4wheeling.com/welndmn/images/weekends/9.9.01rocktoads/squareshaft.jpg

It bangs around and makes noise on the street, but with the radio up I don't even know it's there.



Where did you get the material for that badboy? I asked the local metal guy here and I was fawking surprised as hell at the price he quoted me. :eek:

Originally posted by GloNDark


Where did you get the material for that badboy? I asked the local metal guy here and I was fawking surprised as hell at the price he quoted me. :eek:

Last reply by me, cause Rusty is :crybaby: because I'm mess'n in his post :flipoff2:

Materials
Design Construction in Martinez, about $40.00 for enough material to build 3 or 4 lines
2" x .250 tube
2.5" Receiver tube
One old drive line for parts
Welder

BTW I asked Jees if he could balance it and the answer was NO!

Your local trailer place will have it. I bought 4 feet for $21

Originally posted by GloNDark
Where did you get the material for that badboy? I asked the local metal guy here and I was fawking surprised as hell at the price he quoted me. :eek:

had my square shaft goin 50mph, very nice! loud son of a bitch, but not as much vibration as i thought.:D

Ahh it being made
Video of it (http://home.off-road.com/~wtfourwheeling/video/shaftweld.mpg)

That was a fun weekend

I want those leathers!! I can't count the pairs of shirts and pants sacrificed to the welding gods. :D

Originally posted by welndmn
Ahh it being made
Video of it (http://home.off-road.com/~wtfourwheeling/video/shaftweld.mpg)

That was a fun weekend

Put a spring inside of it from something like the front fork of a motorcycle to keep some tension on it.

a "square" driveline, has Jesse heard about this???

my front shaft is square and my spares front and rear are square they rock!!! i have run them front an rear and they are some stout stuff. you will not break one that is for sure.

a "square" driveline, has Jesse heard about this???

when I ordered my 1410 front t-case yoke I mentioned to Jesse that I wanted to use sq tube shafts...If I never win a High Angle Driveline on this board I probably know why:D

What abot BB's in the square tubes to balance them at speed?

Originally posted by coachgeo
What abot BB's in the square tubes to balance them at speed?

it is not just a balancing problem. the little bit of slop in the fit of the two square tubes causes some vibes and chatters too.

ahhhhhhh... slop noise... hmmmmm maybe a sliver of plastic pushed in there? orrrr... maybe some rubber stuff rapped arond the out side to aboros the vibrations instead of it creaing sound waves.... hmmmmm?

just rambling thoughts

Originally posted by coachgeo
ahhhhhhh... slop noise... hmmmmm maybe a sliver of plastic pushed in there? orrrr... maybe some rubber stuff rapped arond the out side to aboros the vibrations instead of it creaing sound waves.... hmmmmm?

just rambling thoughts

Maybe a baseball card and a clothespin to get the same sound when were kids running around on our bikes :rolleyes:

Originally posted by jdjanda


Maybe a baseball card and a clothespin to get the same sound when were kids running around on our bikes :rolleyes:


ahhhh..... nooooo looking for ways to make things more quiet.. no more noisy.... .

now maybe us round shafters... we can add the baseball card so we can sound like the square guys?

Some guys have welded 3/16 plate to it, to help take some of the slop out of it