Major Setback

[Andy4639]

Well I picked up the truck today. I was surprised this morning after talking to Bruce. He had Carolina Driveline do a one peice drive shaft for the truck at his expense not mine. $490.00 and it looks great!
The transmission he said was fine other than the rear tail section bushing and seal. They replaced it and he flushed the trans out good 2 times he said. Changed filters each time and said it was good to go. He gave me a 30 day garuntee with it. I would like to have had it rebuilt but with the 30 days I'm Ok with it. We will see how it does. Driving to the beach next week so that should be a good test for it. 5hrs each way running 70-80 all the way.

[chuckmc8]

Its refreshing to see the right thing done. Kudos to the shops involved! Enjoy the ride to the beach!

[Andy4639]

Originally Posted by chuckmc8

Its refreshing to see the right thing done. Kudos to the shops involved! Enjoy the ride to the beach!

Well I hope everything is good inside the transmission. I will tell it by next week I hope if not. The driveshaft looks to be 100% in everyway which is good. When I drove it home yesterday I went the long way home to hit the 4 lanes and gotter up to 70-80 MPH and held it for a mile are so. I had a sound that I never had before so I was worried. I went by my buddies shop and had him drive it by himself so he could see if anything seemed wrong. He came back and said it drove great and he didn't feel anything. So I'm good with it. He told me the one peice may have a differant sound to it compared to what I had before with the 2 peice.He told me to take my hearing aids out when driving it! Ha... Most of the time I do anyway!

[akdg87]

Andy: what's the diameter on the new driveshaft?

I'm looking at having one built next week

Thanks

DG

[Andy4639]

Originally Posted by akdg87

Andy: what's the diameter on the new driveshaft?

I'm looking at having one built next week

Thanks

DG

I went out and measured it. Looks as though it's 4". I need to get a calipor on it to make sure though. It narrows down at the yoke and at the rear end to maybe 3". I'll get some more pictures.
I drove over to the local truck meeting today in Greenville SC that I help organize so I haven't had a lot of time. I've been down loading pictures since I got home. We had 33-35 trucks show up today!

[Andy4639]

Well I drove it to Myrtle Beach last night 289 miles and it ran fine. Everything was good. The drive shaft seems to be hallow and it is making the noise at highway speeds. I wrapped duct tape around the center of the shaft before I left and it made it a lot quiter up until about 80 MPH. I will call the shop back next week and see when they can look at it. It needs to be cut open and have insulation installed welded back and rebalanced. That is what I'm being told anyway.

[Ozzy2013]

Originally Posted by jjzepplin

Wait a minute. You took this in and they first-cut the shaft too short-Second, did not balance it,-third , removed it and balanced it and then reinstalled the then too short shaft without making it the right length. And then only when you brought it to their attention they are going to fix it. Makes you wonder if they really rebuilt your trans in three days and how well it was done, if it was actually done. HMMM
I am with Byran H on this one.
For your sake, I hope they really fix it.

I was thinking the exact same thing not only did they screw up once but they did it twice!The so called mechanic would be fired if he worked for me!

[Houston Ben]

Andy,
Sorry to hear about the problem but glad it got corrected and not at your expense. I can emigine how pissed you were, I had a different WTF than yours but still not a fun experience.

[Andy4639]

Yes I wasn't happy at all about it but he made it right. Now I have to get the drive line shop to fix the howling sound it makes when running the interstate speed's!

[Houston Ben]

I did my first "long" drive last week and it ran like a champ, crused @ 80 for 3 hours with no problems, feels good right?!

[68c10airstream]

Hi Andy, reading this series of posts related to your driveshaft woes i noted on post #26 what looks like the riveted carrier bearing support brace that was attached to the crossmember was torched off and the flames discolored the crossmember and and discolored areas in the same region on the new driveshaft??? If so, is the driveshaft warped from being torched at??? The discoloration has a light blue hue to it on my screen. Hope all goes well.

[truckdude239]

Man thst driveshaft is really close to that cross member

[Andy4639]

68c10airstream, you may be on to something there. I hadn't really payed that any attention.

Originally Posted by truckdude239

Man thst driveshaft is really close to that cross member

If your talking about this picture it's the angle of the picture.

[BR3W CITY]

Is there a good amount of room on either side? Even with the angle of the picture, if the 1piece shaft is a larger diameter you have less tolerance on either side. Its not necessarily a problem, just something to keep your eyes on as you use it a bit.

If your out on the road and hit some woopdy-woops or choppy roads that would bounce and try to off-center a suspension, take a look at the shaft after you come back...just to make sure there is no sign of scoring on near the pass-through.

[Andy4639]

Originally Posted by BR3W CITY

Is there a good amount of room on either side? Even with the angle of the picture, if the 1piece shaft is a larger diameter you have less tolerance on either side. Its not necessarily a problem, just something to keep your eyes on as you use it a bit.

If your out on the road and hit some woopdy-woops or choppy roads that would bounce and try to off-center a suspension, take a look at the shaft after you come back...just to make sure there is no sign of scoring on near the pass-through.

Good idea. I will check it out this week. I just got home. Truck seems to be fine but will check on it. Not driving it for the next few days until I get all the show stuff squared away.

[BR3W CITY]

all good man, just don't want you to get on the road and find out on the way to Myrtle!

[Andy4639]

The truck sitting at the show. I took the picture of the truck in front of the Power Tour bus last June in Chattanooga Tenn before I left out for Charlotte that morning. Had it blown up and went to Hobby Lobby and bought a cheap frame and table top easel for it. Less than $20.00.







Here is the link for the car show.


http://s1233.photobucket.com/user/an...24467353832517

[Andy4639]

Well this past wekend at the car show I meet some cool people. One of them was a friend of Charlies the guy who did the tune on my truck at Hawks. I gave him my number and he said he would have him call me. Well Wednesday night he called, I was surprised but very glad he did. We talked for a hour and next week we are going to do a drive tune on it. I'm going to pick him up and he is going to see what he can do with it. I told him I was going on the power tour in June and he said we may can get 1 are 2 more MPG out of it. That's not a bunch but every bit helps. He is going to look at everything again and make sure that it's right.
Still got to call the drive shaft place though.

[oldman3]

Good news on the tuner, truck looks great, nice pics of the show...Jim

[Andy4639]

Originally Posted by oldman3

Good news on the tuner, truck looks great, nice pics of the show...Jim

Thanks I took over 500 pictures.