Custom Driveshafts

xj4meplz · 03-06-2015, 09:41 PM

At the monthly club meeting Monday the subject of custom driveshafts came up. After I left I thought to myself I should have taken notes as it was good information on vendors and experiences with them.

So where to go and who to avoid when getting custom driveshafts made?

WrenchMonkey · 03-06-2015, 10:07 PM

I haven't priced em lately, but I paid $300 for mine from Tom Woods eight years ago.

I finally tore the boot on it at Slade last April. That let enough junk into the splines that it seized up. Took it apart and cleaned it up, and it's back in service.

Can't ask for much more than that.

donaldcon · 03-07-2015, 10:17 AM

I've never purchased a aftermarket shaft. Always build my own but drive line 1 in columbus does alot of work for the guys in my group and I've had them balance the ones I've built

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JeffK5 · 03-07-2015, 10:34 AM

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Originally Posted by offroadohio

I've never purchased a aftermarket shaft. Always build my own but drive line 1 in columbus does alot of work for the guys in my group and I've had them balance the ones I've built

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Where do you buy your parts ..stuff like heavyduty slips and yokes?

donaldcon · 03-07-2015, 02:25 PM

Find what I need in the junkyard and machine it to fit.

Haven't not been able to make something work yet.

But I'm not running a high hp motors with 40+ tires either

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xj joey · 03-09-2015, 03:47 PM

X2 on Tom Woods. I have had them two different Cherokees.

03-06-2015, 09:41 PM	#1
xj4meplz Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: Reading, Ohio Posts: 4	Custom Driveshafts At the monthly club meeting Monday the subject of custom driveshafts came up. After I left I thought to myself I should have taken notes as it was good information on vendors and experiences with them. So where to go and who to avoid when getting custom driveshafts made?

03-06-2015, 10:07 PM	#2
WrenchMonkey Mechanical Animal - CORE Member - - Moderator - Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Beechmont Posts: 1,883	I haven't priced em lately, but I paid $300 for mine from Tom Woods eight years ago. I finally tore the boot on it at Slade last April. That let enough junk into the splines that it seized up. Took it apart and cleaned it up, and it's back in service. Can't ask for much more than that. __________________ DIRTY DEEDS, DONE DIRT CHEAP Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stranger

03-07-2015, 10:17 AM	#4
donaldcon Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Lancaster Ohio Posts: 383	I've never purchased a aftermarket shaft. Always build my own but drive line 1 in columbus does alot of work for the guys in my group and I've had them balance the ones I've built sent on tapatalk __________________ www.offroadohio.com www.facebook.com/offroadohio1 www.youtube.com/offroadohio1 www.photobucket.com/offroadohio

03-07-2015, 02:25 PM	#6
donaldcon Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Lancaster Ohio Posts: 383	Find what I need in the junkyard and machine it to fit. Haven't not been able to make something work yet. But I'm not running a high hp motors with 40+ tires either sent on tapatalk __________________ www.offroadohio.com www.facebook.com/offroadohio1 www.youtube.com/offroadohio1 www.photobucket.com/offroadohio

03-09-2015, 03:47 PM	#7
xj joey Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Hebron, Kentucky Posts: 18	X2 on Tom Woods. I have had them two different Cherokees.