[steve]

yer yer i'm sure everyone will think it's dodgy.. but it's for offroad use only.... and it works.

I needed a 100mm longer shaft, so i cut two shafts and sleeved it with some tube. I drilled some holes along the standard shaft and once the tube was inside i welded in the holes, basicly connecting the outside tube to the inside tube.

This is about 100mm longer than standard.

[JrZook]

For a gain of |<-------------------------->| much may i ask why a drive shaft spacer didnt do the trick? Or does it already have one?

Ps welds look ok

Dan

[Zook_Fan]

yeah how long is the extension? it looks less then 1 inch

[steve]

now i remember. It's actually two different shafts. i purprosly cut them both that length , so i had a space to weld them to the inner tube.

PS. where the cut on the long side of the shaft is, is where the shaft ended.

It's a front shaft with a rear shaft end welded on,.. I'll get a measurement tomorrow for the hell of it.

[basketcase]

That seems fine. Its a trail rig, why would you bother buying a spacer?? Doesn't need to be perfectly balanced or anything. I would even go as far as RHS shafts on a trail rig. When your going slow they don't need to be balanced.

[Built4thrashing]

A mate of mine uses a RHS shaft in the front of hil hilux. works well but it does seem to flog out the uni's alot quicker

[royce]

another trick is to get some heavywall pipe the right diameter and replace the whole lot, then its more impact resistent too