up to 4500 now! and only thing failing me is the damn throw out bearing. :( brand new ford motorcraft bearing has crapped the bed. meh, time for that twin disc...

we are at 5800 miles right now. all good, only thing i've done is change the injectors to a new set. just because. all i do is beat on this truck. :shrug

oh yeah, throwout is still squeeking on startup. meh.

wow man, thank you for the compliment! i really appreciate that.

oh man, aint that the truth! i'm always on something... and it's rarely my junk... thanks for watching!

oh, and people at the show loved the mid-length bed conversion that i did. shorter but not too long nor too short, ;perfect length IMHO.

That's fantastic! I have used J pipes before to cancel drone but hadn't heard of offsetting them, I'll have to try it out!

Hey there vintagespeed, I’m currently shortening a driveshaft for my 90 f150, I am wondering if you pounded the yoke all the way so it would butt up to the lip of the yoke or just to where you ground the weld off? Thank you!!

@@caseypastachak8891 yes, i cleaned up the tubing where i ground the weld off, cleaned up the yoke to the shoulder, beat the yoke back into the tube and welded 'er up. has held up fine so far, lots & lots of burnouts/donuts and today ran 'er over 100mph on the fwy again....it happens frequently...was doing some data logging. so far so good! thanks for the question.

I know Im kinda off topic but does anyone know a good website to watch new tv shows online?

@Augustus Gregory flixportal :D

@Otis Edward Thank you, I went there and it seems to work :) Appreciate it!

@Augustus Gregory Glad I could help :)

good point!

I just watched a Halfass Kustoms video of him doing that exact thing: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aLKfnc9-u7qxfaM.html

i actually did knock them around a little. the shafts i've just done for the '59 apache, 5.3 swap that i'm doing right now came out pretty tight at .003. 👍

i'm sure! only shaft i've ever dropped was one i banged up on jackhammer in JV.. but that was really beat to crap on the rocks. street stuff has been fine. thanks for watching!

thanks for the tips! good stuff! my shafts have held up just fine in my old junk, and have been fine after lots of abuse and 130+ mph runs! there's ALWAYS a better way to do something, but sometimes the old ways work pretty damn well. thanks for watching & commenting man! (she's up to 4800miles so far)

@@vintagespeed be safe my friend !

love it, thank you!

no rich fat cats around this garage. :D just us poor working slobs that like loud motors and breaking speed limits... 👀

the motor is offset to the passenger side about an inch to clear the steering shaft/joints, the rear axle is centered. the 8.8 is offset pinion so the yoke is not exactly centered in the housing. thanks for watching and keeping me on my toes!

depends on your shop i guess. 🤔 so far, my budget shafts have .003 - .005 runout, have proven themselves to 5500rpm burnouts and 135mph runs...so for now, so far so good. :) thanks for watching.

i will update if something happens. i've tried, nothing's happened. :D

Bill, The mufflers vibrate as exhaust pulses pass thru. Each has their own harmonics and change at different engine speed and the muffled weight. Placing them at different lengths apart will mostly do the trick. But “Droning” is heard inside the vehicles cabin. Manufactures place weights on heavy gauge rods seen on several common locations if you spent a lot of time under different vehicles. A vibration or droning is high enough for the human ear to hear. Sometimes, the cabin becomes an amplifier. Each item in life has a frequency when vibrated at the right speed. The ones you can hear have to modified. Hope this helps! ASE Master Tech since 1978.

i cut down the stock harness, reversed it and ran it all under the intake manifold.

thanks for the heads up! i had to go back and re-watch. excellent work! as for the shaft, she's still spinning just fine and working great. thanks for watching.....my back!

@@vintagespeed I was just joking as it was funny how you started the video looking around to make sure we could talk! I did have gals in class at "UTI" nights but also in ACDelco tech seminars, some city in 7 states. I made the mistake of putting my name and company cell on the first PPT slide. Man I got calls. One shop owner called with no serial data on some newer GM, as he could not establish CAN serial data. I ask him if he had come to a Dubuque seminar as I covered 7 types of GM serial data and how to fix it. Yes, I was there, but this is so new it would be under warranty so I didn't pay attention. I asked for history and he told me he had a TECH-2 with CANdi module put the vehicle was towed from a body shop after hitting a deer. I said a 120 ohm terminating resistor on the two wire system, so pins 6 and 14 should measure 60 ohms. He to me he had zero and damage was on left fender. He called back 2 hrs later with news he had broken wire. Then, I will pay attention next time since deer collision is not warranty! Lol. I was with Delco the last 7 years.

well, you could ask the hemi charger that tried to hang with me yesterday... :) it's holding up just fine. so far i've had it over 130mph and daily doses of 2nd gear burnouts without any problems. thanks for asking!

@@vintagespeed sounds good! I’m doing an 8.8 swap In 67 cougar! This will come in handy

yeah, well that's what i said in the video. BUT if you're not able to get to a driveline shop and you need a quick fix... although mine's fine. thanks for watching.

Lol! There's always a few people who project their feelings and perspective on everyone else, thinking they should think just like you do, and there's OBVIOUSLY something wrong with anyone who doesn't! If everyone just did things the standard way, there would be no such thing as custom builds and really, who would ever have anything to post on KZfaq? Lol! Not to mention that there are times when things don't go as planned, or you live in the middle of Montana, and the nearest driveshaft shop is 5+ hrs away round trip, etc etc..... Sharing knowledge is what we're here for. Sorry for the rant, but there is more to life than just being like everyone else.

Yes, I would agree the the weld should but cut on a lathe with center supports. Dial indicator is recommended in 4-5 locations to achieve near perfect inline rotation. Plus, with the minimum removed, a TIG would best best. But I have seen many race cars on 1/4 mile track or late-model categories work fine balanced by two hose clamps, marks and alignment shims used as weight. Even factory shafts fail. ASE Master Tech since 1978.

sure, like i said in the vid, the best method is to take it to a driveline shop. this should be used as a 'temporary fix' type situation. that said though, i've put 4800 miles on my V10 (400+ foot pounds) little 415ci and she gets beat on every single time i drive it. lots of donuts and burnouts, many many many 1/4 mile runs and many 130+ mph freeway chases..... and ya know what?? so far not a single problem. thanks for watching!

Wow! You know if he took two days to get it done, or the thing flew apart the first time he drove it, or it vibrated so badly he lost his dentures!! Lol! Haha! You guys are killing me! It's working! It's working! If you have half a brain and a tad bit of understanding, you can replicate his results pretty easily! If you're just learning, might want to rethink it! Personally I have brought driveshafts home after driving nearly 4 hrs round trip, and the jackass who "balanced" the driveshaft failed to notice it was running out by .125" PLUS!! AFTER I explained when bringing the shaft in that it was there because the rear yoke was broken from the previous owner turning up the radio, instead of replacing the ujoint! Resulting in a bent shaft! I could have done better MYSELF with an effing hacksaw, file and my mig welder! Would have been time AND money ahead as well! To top that off, I'm working on a driveshaft right now, that has miss matched size bearing cups on BOTH ENDS of the driveshaft I paid $350 for and wondered why the ubolts felt like it wouldn't tighten down like it should! So the "experts" ef up pretty bad sometimes! Oh the second story is a totally different shop as we were 500 miles from home when apparently something damaged the shaft on the highway, and the sucker twisted up like crazy, pulling a trailer up a goat path with an actual road name in West Virginia! Lol

@@deankay4434 meh.

@@davidcatlin1970 dang man, i dont have dentures.... and yeah, what's it been, 3yrs of just pure beating on this 450tq V10 truck??? all i do is drive the sh!t out of it and i've had ZERO ISSUES. ZERO ISSUES. so i will just keep on beating on it, you guys can keep on bitching about it and we'll all be satisfied i guess. those guys need to go actually work on something instead of just blathering about how someone else should work on something. thanks for the support, and i'm sorry i'm a slacker and didn't reply sooner. thanks for watching!