How to shorten a driveshaft at home. 

Great job man thank you. The angle iron is such a good idea. 🏆

this is the best tutorial in YT for DIY shortening driveshaft. i knew those bed rails were useful. i am going to attempt what you’ve done here. thank you and great job brother!

You are able to do a lot in your tiny garage. Happy to see you publishing again. Hope all is well. Would always love to see more of you and 22RE.

You saved the day for me, once again! I need to do this on my 620 and I didn’t know where to start.

This is the best way I know how to do jobs like this without a large lathe. This even works with the Explorer 8.8 rear axle when you need to shorten the drivers side tube when doing swaps.

Great work man! Love to see it. Keep pressing

Many years ago (several decades actually) I shortened a drive shaft, but I didn't do it the way you did. What I did was to cut out the weld and remove the end cap, then I cut the tube and pressed the end cap back in and welded it. Then I put it in the lathe and checked for alignment with a dial indicator and used oxy to heat and water quench the tube in the right spots to get it aligned. This is how drive shaft manufacturers do the job. I didn't need to balance it and it worked well with no vibration. To ensure alignment, I scribed a line before I removed the end cap.

Good to see you upload again. I also might be needing to do this soon lol

Nice job. I half paying attention when you were under the vehicle and you said “Uh oh “ in my experience that means you messed up. Glad it was just in gear. Great information.

I know guys have 15 different ways of doing this because i think I've watchwd them all on here lol. i have a two piece with the same issue. Im going to use your method and i thoroughly appreciate your attention to detail when doing this video. Obviously its not what many consider a perfect way of doing it but my truck is far from perfect and its worth trying before dropping a bunch of money for someone else to do it.

Great idea, tacking the angle iron from the start. Nothing wrong with that job, at all.👍

Good video. Awesome idea

Good stuff man.👍🏻

I've done this before But with the off cut of tube, cut it length ways+ take out a bit extra, squish tube so it can be inserted inside the drive shaft tightly to a-line everything. Good for backstop for welding, can put on vehicle before welding to make sure it fits + spin on vehicle and once welded if it fails it just slips on itself and doesn't flap around.

Awesome!! Thanks for 🧑‍🏫

I've done this with pretty good results a couple of times by just cutting the tube after laying down a line long enough to match up the two left over pieces. Clamp those parts to a piece of angle iron and weld it back together. The first one was for a '72 Chev pickup, and the second was for a demo derby car, that admittedly did not have to travel at speed, but did not break during the derby.

i like your idea i just bought a front shaft for my f350 from amazon and it was 2 inches to long did not have time for playing the return it game so i cut the yoke off one end but i was disappointed it only had 3/8 of an inch that went inside the tube so i was taking a chance on pounding it back in straight all went well but next time i will definitely try your way next time it looks more fool proof

Interesting way good job

If you take a piece of stock that’s about half the diameter of the shaft, you can scribe an index mark with that and avoid the angle iron. Use it to index the shaft in the bandsaw too. Save the angle for jigging when you tack it back together

I've never seen it done this way before. This is great!

u should make a tac setting on ur welder, like the migatronic tig tac setting, it just makes tacs so much easier and bettter

Just checking.....are you using the welder with gas? if not remove front cap , better welding and you can see the wire.

bed frame steel is very hard stuff. hard enough to ruin your saw blade.

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Nobody would ever do this , ever , never.

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