I have been building a tube buggy for a while now and use Hardline for a lot of ideas. I recently was wanting to build a two piece drive shaft because of clearance issues in the buggy. I don't have a lathe, just basic tools.
So this is what I came up with. I took a trip down to the new U PULL IT junk yard. I got a drive shaft out of a mid 90s Chevy 2wd 3/4 ton truck all 1350 joints. I pulled the whole thing including the yoke on back of the trans. I found another shaft out of a Dodge truck that was a 32 spline and it fit the trans yoke I got off the Chevy truck. Bought a 1 3/8" pillow block bearing that fit the slip shaft where the carrier bearing went on the Dodge truck. I had to cut the splines down so the trans yoke would tighten up to it. Drill and tapped the splined shaft to hold the yoke on.
I also cut and drilled out the trans yoke to accept ubolt style clamps for the ujoint instead of the straps.
I have less than 75 bucks in the entire setup.
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So this is what I came up with. I took a trip down to the new U PULL IT junk yard. I got a drive shaft out of a mid 90s Chevy 2wd 3/4 ton truck all 1350 joints. I pulled the whole thing including the yoke on back of the trans. I found another shaft out of a Dodge truck that was a 32 spline and it fit the trans yoke I got off the Chevy truck. Bought a 1 3/8" pillow block bearing that fit the slip shaft where the carrier bearing went on the Dodge truck. I had to cut the splines down so the trans yoke would tighten up to it. Drill and tapped the splined shaft to hold the yoke on.
I also cut and drilled out the trans yoke to accept ubolt style clamps for the ujoint instead of the straps.
I have less than 75 bucks in the entire setup.
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