Hey guys. I was takin the truck out in the desert and was railin on it pretty good until the driveshaft hit the crossmember under the back of the cab and completely blew up. So yesterday I went to a junkyard and grabbed a crappy one out of a 97 and it's gonna work fine but all the ones at the junkyards have dents in them from the trucks being lifted up by a forklift. I was wondering what other years have driveshafts that would fit mine?

 

Nobody has any advice about this??

 

Carbon Fiber FTW!! Haha I have no idea just bumping it up for ya

 

Hahaha ya if only I had a money tree!

 

I'd take your broke one to a drive line shop and have the retube it. Possibly if you want to spend the extra money with thicker tube. When I did this it cost just a touch over 100 (like 120 or so).

 

Retube it? It's in 3 pieces haha, how do you work with that?

 

if the ends are intact they cut those intact and replace the tubing in between. if they're not intact take 1 of your junk yard shafts down and have it re tube

 

oh the ends are fine, I had no idea they could do that!

 

Don't know if your's is aluminum or steel...cost will be effected depending material i'm sure. But yes they can retube it and if you have any length issues you can have it taken care of right then and there and have a shaft perfect for your truck. I had to do this on my explorer when i switch from the 8.8 to my 9" and did the SOA. The snout on the 9" was shorter so I needed a longer shaft (hehe).


Found this in your town
http://azdriveshaft.com/driveshafts-mesa-az/

 

Hey thanks alot man!!!

 

Looks like a quality shop. I watch one of their videos... pretty neat process

 

Definitely a cool process, gonna head in there on Monday and have my old shaft made into somethin nice and keep the one I have now as a spare just in case this happens again hahaha...

 

So that shop told me they can't retube it for various reasons. Do supercrew drive shafts work on extended cab short bed trucks?