Shop Time w/T.W. Friends. Where is your wallet…..poll

Bought a spare tire winch out of a junk truck for $5 and made a bracket to mount it under my gooseneck trailer to get the spare out of the elements, works great I just hope I never have to use it

A guy ask me why I put the crank handle out the drivers side because of traffic. I said well I didn't think about it for one thing but do you only have flats on the passenger side away from traffic?

 

You move quick! Love it!!

 

Customer brought a motorcycle frame by he's restoring and wanted some holes filled in on the frame where the triple tree goes.

 

Took the miniature disc over to the powdercoater and he ask me to look at his saw and see why it’s not oiling. System is clean, has to be the pump, right?

 

Took the powdercoater his saw back and he made a special red run for me today

 

Done!

 

Here’s the four piece collection I’ve made so far.

 

You wouldn't happen to be able to cut splines would you???

 

Sorry, I can not. There used to be a place in Greensboro that could do it, I can't think of the name of it though.

 

Shoot. I want a custom flange yoke made for my rear diff so I can use bigger U-joints and that's my hang up right now

 

Try Oliver’s driveshaft in winston-salem. He can probably give you the name of someone who can help you if he can’t.

 

Ernies machine shop in greensboro is the name of it.

 

They didn't know when I talked to them about it and they didn't seem interested in making the DS I would like to.

What about taking a 1350 flange and the stock flange cutting them apart and welding them back together to Frankenstein what I want? You think that's viable or would work?

 

You may see balance issues with that set-up.

 

If it's jigged up and welded similar to a DS and since it's essentially "hard" mounted it may not but good point. Because it could end up with a higher run-out hmmmmm. Well more to think about

 

I'm not sure I follow. Drive shafts are typically balanced (or at least checked) when they are manufactured. Unless a shaft is built for a very low RPM application it should be balanced.

 

Right I'm talking about the flange yoke the part the DS attaches to on the pinion of the rear diff. If you weld the splined section to the flange section you could end up with some run-out at the flange. There is plenty of builder DS parts out there I can have a 1350 DS made front and R and will if I can figure out the flange yoke problem to accept 1350 sized flanges with the correct bolt pattern

 

Right on! Sounds like you have a handle on it.
And Creed is a good resource!

 

I wouldn’t want to marry two flanges to make one, like @Hobbs said, balance issues, runout, and the liability if it comes apart that, could be bad

 

... but fun to watch!