Drive Shafts
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Drive Shafts
Where’s the best place to get drive shafts? I recently found my front drive shaft is fused together at the slip joint even though I rebuilt both shafts two years ago and made sure to grease the hell out of them and band clamped the dust boots. The rear shaft is still lubed and good to go. I soaked with Kroil vertically, heated, beat, pulled, pressed and still can’t free it. I found a site that uses Spicer joints and their price is $297 shipped.
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Considering I had the transfer case end in the pipe vise on my F-250 and pulled the rear of the truck over a foot sideways while pulling on the yoke end with my Kubota L3400 and chain after heating and soaking in penetrating oil...I guess the teflon or poly coating on the splines has to be history and the splines aren’t going to separate. Even if I did, is there any way to weld a new spline shaft on it and replace the yoke?
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I would try to find someone locally that does heavy truck driveline work, chances are they can do pickup trk driveline work also. I don’t know where Victoria Tx is but I would try and find something local..
Good luck!
ps looks like maybe Randy’s in Houston
Good luck!
ps looks like maybe Randy’s in Houston
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I can but my sources build specialty shafts and are going to be a fair bit more then the one you found for $300 but they use the best parts available.
EDIT… i see Tom offers a front excursion shaft for $300. TAKE MY Money !!!
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Tom’s double cardan front shaft for mine is $489. I think I’m going to try to cut the spline shaft off and have my fab shop weld a new spline on it and buy a new slip yoke then have it balanced.
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do you have a lathe ? you want to use a lathe to cut it off or take carefull grinder work and grind out the weld.
a local driveline shop can make quick work out of a cutting off the old and installing a new spline.
parts here
https://www.dennysdriveshaft.com/c12...ine_parts.html
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I don’t but my buddy recommended a local driveline shop in Buda Texas. I have to go up that way soon to return the engine stand anyway so it works out. I had an old school driveline guy in town but he sold out to some methicans a year ago. I dropped it off two weeks ago and never heard from them and they wouldn’t return calls so a few days ago I went by with my Glock and repo’d it. Dude said it wasn’t fixable but never bothered to call me. He tried selling me some rusty *** junk for $300 and I told him I wasn’t interested. He should have been able to rebuild it but I guess the meth wasn’t making him too productive...
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Well the shop in Buda quoted me $250 to cut spline shaft, weld new one on, replace slip yoke and balance. That’s using current joints, not replacing them. I think I’ll buy the $297 shaft from DJI and be done. I don’t offroad enough to worry about it too much.
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