Going to a One piece Drive Shaft tomorrow

Bro. I've replaced the lasagna noodle stock Taco leaf springs with a set of OLE. Speaking for myself, they kick ASSSSS! I'm not looking for Cadillac but these replacement springs are STOUT yet not as stiff as a rail road tie.
EDIT <OME, not OLE... what the fuk is OLE??? LOL!>

 

OK. I'm slightly sober here. And I also want to continue to inform you ardent listeners out there about my progress with my struggles with upgrading the crummy stock Toyota two-piece rear drive line (with all of its wobbles, jerks, thumps, and bumps!). Today, I have just installed my new custom (single-piece) drive line into my 2011 Taco. And all I can say is FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I said fuck, as in what a fucking improvement! But before I type too much more, I have to give a mighty internet shout out to Al Nichols of Drive Line Service of Sacramento, dlssac.com

 

Got any pics? How much did that bad boy run yah?

 

$450. Not too bad for the results it yields.
I'll get some pics in the next day or so and also some GoPro vids.

 

OK. I have finally gotten around to GoPro-ing my new single piece drive line. So here we go:


Side view of the new one piece shaft and a display of where the old carrier bearing used to be


A side view of the yoke showing pinion angle and diff torsion under load.


New single piece shaft from the diff's point of view.


And from the TC point of view:


The double cardan itself:


And a final view of the cardan:



After driving my Taco for a few weeks with the new one piece drive line I can say that I am very happy with the results. Power is smoothly transferred from the TC down the line back to the differential. The hopping and slapping of the old carrier bearing is a thing of the past. Why Toyota went two-piece is kinda beyond me. It seems that it would be less expensive from a manufacturers perspective to eliminate a center bearing.

But anyway, I am totally happy with the 450USD that I shelled out for this custom shaft. My Taco is now drivable again.

And another big thank you to Al Nichols at https://www.drive-lines.com/dlssac.com/index.html

 

WTB: Can a guy get a front section of one of y'all 2-piece driveshafts(dcsb/aclb)?

 

Uh oh, that doesn't sound good

 

How the hell did you manage that?

 

It was a shaft from a junkyard.. I'm thinking it was weakened either by the wreck that sent it there or the staff dropped it..

 

Dropped my taco off a powertrain in savanna ga. Yesterday afternoon to have a 1 piece driveline manufactured and installed and tweaked. Hope i have the same good fortune y'all had.

 

Just left a driveline shop with my new custom 1 piece driveshaft and my truck drives smooth as glass!

 

Alrighty I’m digging up some bones here. It’s 2025 driveshafts are now going for $1000+ tom woods for roughly $750 however since so many people complained or didn’t troubleshoot properly he ain’t making em for us anymore….he’s subbing out some company in Tennessee making aluminum shafts for $1050 . My local driveline shop surprisingly who we use all the time at work told me he can’t make a metric shaft???? All I have to say to that is “wild”….so who are we using these days?

 

Any other local shop. Vehicles been driving around America for over a century. I went to California driveline on my recent mod required and have used driveline pro. Both at a very reasonable price for what I requested.