What is a fair price to pay to have your driveshaft shortenned?

lmfao!!!!!

 

Shortened 1" and rebalanced. $125

 

i think i paid $115 for shortening and balancing in NJ 7 or 8 yrs ago

 

inland truck parts built me a new one for $225 in 6 hours.
i shortened one for $.25 in welding and grinding.

 

I paid $170 last year for a NEW complete driveshaft with yoke and both u-joints. And you can too.............

http://southwestspeed.com/?sec=view_menu&cat=Drivetrain&sub=Driveshafts&ssub=!!!2\" Steel Driveshafts

They ship the same day or next day.

 

We have a guy here in Chico,CA that charges around $80.00.

 

Sounds like they do the shortening, and you get the shaft.

 

I just had a complete new one fabricated and the cost out the door 325.00. They must have quoted a new one

 

Did it myself like the tech article, but around here $75-$100 is the usual.

I used a big pipe cutter to cut it nice and straight and measured several times. Also, I took a piece of angle iron and drew an index line along the tube up to the yoke so that when I reassembled it, it was indexed the same way as before.

After tacking, I measured several times from yoke to yoke to ensure it was square.

 

Do it yourself, if you have a grinder, welder and a dial indicator.

 

in switzerland those bastards charged me 450 swissbucks. Nearly 500$

 

I usually just find a driveshaft the right lenght.

The salvage yard I frequent has them hanging on a rack.
Hundreds of them. The driveshaft in my 32 Ford roadster is a 1988 Chevrolet Corvette aluminum driveshaft. I had the change the yoke ( I have a 400 Turbo ) ... but the rest is just as it left Bowling Green Ky.


A lot of the later model vehicles now come with the aluminum driveshaft ( Camaro/Explorer/Chevrolet pickups ect ) I have a Camaro aluminum driveshaft in my 32 3W ... even has the correct 700R4 yoke on it.

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I had mine done for my dodge in Tulsa and it cost me $120, and that was to have it shortend and new u joints and a new rear flange for my caddy rear end.

 

same here and they put new u-joints in it...

 

I just had one done for my model A and it was 125 dollars with new ujoints.......

 

i have no idea what they charge around here, but we shorten our own. we make our marks where we want to cut draw a line down the marked area and cut then line up the ends of the lines and weld. grind smooth and we are done. never had a problem with balance either.

 

thanks for the link.... good reading there