Topic: '91 Toy Xtra cab Eliminating the carrier bearing?

[Lonestar Honcho]

Has anyone got rid of the two-piece rear driveshaft in favor of just "one" longer driveshaft? PO welded the CV portion, of the rearmost driveshaft. Guess he twisted the ears up on the cv joints or something.

What would swap into place with little if any modification?

TIA.

[chim]

Get rid of the carrier portion.. run one long shaft with a cv joint at the t-case side to help with vibration and articulation...

[Lonestar Honcho [OP]]

Thanks for the advice Chim.

Like the sig too

[junya92toy]

You cant run a single tube I tried it. You need a pillow block

[OOPS]

You cant run a single tube I tried it. You need a pillow block

You can run a single tube and it will work fine. The only problem is they are long and easy to bend. I bent three of them before I went back to a two-piece and a custom mount for a pillow-block bearing. Since I took these pictures I have put a clearenced CV, which has about 40 degrees of angle and reset my DL angle so the pinion is pointing at the T-case flange.

[Toymin8r]

You cant run a single tube I tried it. You need a pillow block

Seems to work just fine on DTB's 93 xtra cab.

[Ruari]

I got rid of mine when I went with dual t-cases and I have had no problems with it.  I have had to get it re-tubed once because of a massive dent in it that made awful vibrations on the road.  When I re-tubed it 8 years ago I used a thicker wall tubing.  It is about due to be re-tubed again though.

[Dropmytaco]

im runin a single 4.7:1 case on my extcab with the 2 piece.. its always got me worried in the back in my mind, but i havent had any problems yet so i keep on rollin it

[Lonestar Honcho [OP]]

Thanks all for all the replies. I like the idea of running dual cases with a shorter shaft.