DIY Driveshaft Jig

[rattlewagon]

SKULLYOTA has me motivated to build a DIY drive shaft jig for toyota shafts.

Looking for ideas on all type of driveshaft jigs. But thinking something like this ( Mr Stubs I think this was yours?) . Ive had this image saved forever form the old site:

ya I know I could just do it on the truck, but not when the t case is on the bench! :fangers:

Some others from google

Lets hear it.

 

[chaplinfj60]

ive always thought a 3jaw chuck from a lathe would be the cats meow for holding the tube square while you rotated and fit the yoke to weld in tube.
i seen one of our welders set one up for a receiver hitch

 

[SKULLYOTA]

Old tcase outputs welded to pipe standoffs

 

[chaplinfj60]

did you tack the bearing down? i think i see one tack

 

[Steve300xcw]

A ground strap bolted to your ground works rather well

 

[Steve300xcw]

I'd pass on this idea

 

[SKULLYOTA]

did you tack the bearing down? i think i see one tack

Yeah I welded the outside of the bearing to the pipe standoff

 

[94toytruck]

I like the T-case output idea, I have several of those collecting dust. More than driveshaft parts at this point

 

[chaplinfj60]

Yeah I welded the outside of the bearing to the pipe standoff

and the stand offs are the same height so the outputs are in line too. and move them back and forth for differnt shafts. pretty slick i think

 

[rattlewagon]

Old tcase outputs welded to pipe standoffs

Thats perfect. I like the idea of just tacking the bearing on. I think I have two front input/outputs just waiting to be made in to this.

I'd pass on this idea

I agree. Seems wobbly, I just liked how simple it was.

 

[SKULLYOTA]

rattlewagon if you use a front and a rear together like I did, just remember that the associated bearings are different diameters so your standoffs will need to be different heights to make the center lines the same height. If you did front/front like stubs or rear/rear it would be way easier. All I had at the time was literally the back half of the case I just made into a doubler.

I believe what I did on that particular truck was take the cv from the front shaft and weld it to part of the rear two piece shaft to make a new front, then sent the remaining pieces to Davez to have a real one piece rear made.