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Handover Fist
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Figured it was about time to post a little build thread. Went down to the shop this a.m. and whipped up a new front prop shaft for my Toyota.
I picked this shaft up at the swap meet the Guy said it was heavy duty .120 wall dom. I figured he was full of **** but I couldn't pass up the deal.
First order of business was to throw it in my trusty do-all ban saw.
I found out real quick that I was dealing with run of the mill .060 hrew so I grabbed a piece of 3x.250 wall dom. Figured that would be more than stout enough to slam and grind on rocks all day.
Next stop, the lathe :awesomework: I had to turn down the OD of the original shoulder to 2.50 luckily there was extra material to work with.
Cut the tubing at 13.125 inches then took about .065 off each end to square it up then added a weld chamfer.
On the joint end I didn't have extra meat to work with so I left a little bit of the original tube to bridge the gap.
A few tacks once I had it in phase then it was over to weld shop where I fired up the 250 synchrowave tig. This also about the time my battery took a ****.
Charged the battery then took this pic before install.
In the truck and ready to rock.:fawkdancesmiley:
I picked this shaft up at the swap meet the Guy said it was heavy duty .120 wall dom. I figured he was full of **** but I couldn't pass up the deal.
First order of business was to throw it in my trusty do-all ban saw.
I found out real quick that I was dealing with run of the mill .060 hrew so I grabbed a piece of 3x.250 wall dom. Figured that would be more than stout enough to slam and grind on rocks all day.
Next stop, the lathe :awesomework: I had to turn down the OD of the original shoulder to 2.50 luckily there was extra material to work with.
Cut the tubing at 13.125 inches then took about .065 off each end to square it up then added a weld chamfer.
On the joint end I didn't have extra meat to work with so I left a little bit of the original tube to bridge the gap.
A few tacks once I had it in phase then it was over to weld shop where I fired up the 250 synchrowave tig. This also about the time my battery took a ****.
Charged the battery then took this pic before install.
In the truck and ready to rock.:fawkdancesmiley:
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