Thomas is a true craftsman and a real machinist.

These guys shorten and balanced my drivershaft, don’t hesitate to pay them what they’re worth! True craftsmanship!!

In the late 80's my dad got me a job at a driveshaft shop with a guy who was german. He taught me how to pop ujoints out of a driveshatlft with a ball peen hammer. He also taught me how to weld the driveshafts by hand. After they cooled naturally, we hammered the weld at the low point to bring it into 10/1000 of an inch. No water cooling and no ujoint press. We also used a hammer to install the end yolks. We did everything from dragster half shafts , to cat d90 driveshafts and were the premier shop in the chicago market. It took a special skill to build shafts with a hammer. Anyone can use hydraulics to press a shaft together amd that is how you can keep the payroll lower. Imo. The hydraulic process did look cool. It wasnt easy using a hammer, but I wouldnt trade it for the hammer skills I still have from that job.

This was amazing info! Very detailed without going into useless info. I am supposed to make a driveshaft in autocad for my engineering class and this definitely helped me get a better understanding of literally everything I needed for it. Thank you!

great to a see a hard working guy , building a sweet truck part . A true tradesman , knows his job and how to use the tooling . that's all you can ask for.

Tomas seems like he's Very good at what he does! A true professional at building drive shafts...

I built driveline for quite a few years in my youth. There are methods and balancers that cut the time for this build by at least 75% of the time is see here (I know its edited). This guy is very thorough and i appreciate that.

a true craftsman ! great job Thomas!

great video... very interesting and informative... I never would have thought so much work goes into a straight tube.

Quality work by a true craftsman. Great video.

As a DL tech, I love this. Great work.

We use to own a driveline shop not far from there in the high desert brings back memories they have pretty much all the same equipment we did well done

Thomas is a true craftsman. Great job.

I'm seriously impressed with their work. Inland is going to build my driveline for sure.. Great video...thanks

Great video, awesome to see every step of the process. Certainly looks like quality workmanship to me!

That was awesome to watch. Nice job guys. I know where I'm taking my business. Thank you for sharing. Take care

I love the press to fit unis. A shop that has been doing this for a long time.Older blokes, older [and good] equipment.

Great build coverage on the drive shaft. They do it right. Thanks for the vids

This dude just Awesome! God bless him for his work!

nice work thomas - you are a great worker,well skilled,fast worker,god bless you friend n great video

Fun to watch and informative. Very cool👌🏻

Great video I've had a couple drive lines made but didn't know that much effort went into building one

Start your weld on the high side, one steddy pass, it will be near at 000" Try marking a .000 one and see what it does Never water cool the weld till it gets somewhat cool by air.I have not ballanced any , make them straight. Try the large truck Life-Line with hollow spline that goes oval while welding. I made 2000 in 2 years and built trans. and rear ends at that time. Spicer makes a bar , you can 3 jaw first end with the bar , put slip yolk on . then secod yolk . It's fast . I had to bore tube on trucks they are .012" tight , Too tight , bored to .004" .( 3 Piece Drive line with 2 carrier bearings $3700.00 , 6 hours , Good Money ) . If I do this again I will power feed the weld lathe . I used a hand wheel to turn , Circle with V on tube ajustable . Thanks for video.

Great info and fantastic jab

I miss my blue 67 Plymouth valiant with a 340 and 727. It was a beast

Great job!

Thomas is doing great job for sure.

Pakastani Truck channel needs to look at this video. This is how a driveshaft should be made. Great stuff!

What a great craftsman and awesome video

Very cool! Thanks for the in depth video

Great craftsmanship I'm getting one from you guy's.

how proud are you of your work congratulations from Morocco

Real smart working on a car only supported by a floor jack. Quick way to meet your maker

Thats craftmanship right there!

That's a nice clean shop.

Very enjoyable, nice work.

Fantastic workmanship

you can always spot the skilled craftsman when they pull out a cheesy tape measure.

Did the welding of the weights add to the weights? How much did that throw it out of balance?

haha Thomas cracks me up. Old School OG. Don't find em like that anymore.

great job amigos!! but be careful when polishing the drive shaft, specially with long sleeve shirts..because it can grab you and hurt you really bad or kill you.

I was concerned about the 5-gallon bucket of grease with no lid on it. This is a great opportunity for chips and grit to contaminate the grease.

Crazy skills👏

Awesome information, good tutorial.

***EP super premium is a lithium base grease. It's very good quality, but not recommended to mix with polyurea bases [sometimes used in sealed bearings]. If u-joints have a zerk fitting, make sure you know what you're pumping. Should you mix the two accidentally, it's best to clean and regrease your bearings. Things won't fail instantly, but failure will be early left uncorrected.

Very cool, glorious tradesmen hands there at work

Great video thank you.

We have a place near my house called Henderson Driveline & Axle, and they do great work. They're in Grafton, Ohio. I've had my chevy trucks and a Ford truck drives haft built by them several times now. They're not rude because you don't know what you're doing. They give you all the information to get your vehicle moving and they build a great product. These guys do quality work as well. I hate to say it's cheap but for the kinda quality it's definitely worth it 👌

good stuff to know. i enjoyed the video.

Nothing Like Precision Work.

This was awesome

nice to see great skills

Good price! And great work! I'm shocked about how thin the walls are on drive shafts 😬

Learn something new every day

Well worth the price!!

I would definitely support that business after seeing this video

All the shade tree mechanics nit picking this guys work, are funny as hell.

Thats a good video. U r good at what u do.😀

Good job

As soon as he introduced Nacho, I got really hungry for Bean and Cheese Nachos!

Long sleeves up against a drive shaft spinning at nearly 2k rpm? No thanks, I'll keep my arms (and life) intact. All the safety nitpicking aside, nice work guys!

looks desent nice job guys

Having to witness at age 10 ,my father almost torn to pieces by a rotatating pto driveshaft which grabbed him by a saggy armpit of the coveralls he was wearing untill it left him a naked blood mess and barely alive by the time it let go of him was all the lesson I needed on not wearing long sleeves near spinning drive lines.

That's a really good price I think I thought it would have been more expensive just because what they go through to make it

Is it wise to be quenching the weld?? Do they not always balance at a certain speed like the wheel balancers or do you have to go through the rev range 🤔??

Great shop

Tomas is the man !!! 💪🏻

Damn needle bearing Jedi.... Making it look effortless... Arbor press... Nice 👍 very nice 👍🤙🇺🇸

Can someone explain the torch straightening to me? When i was young didnt have the money for professional so always have and will make my own. Nothing more than 400 hp, 480 tq. I get them to balance them for about 50$ is the tube and sleeve pinching when the weld pulls? And do you use the torch to adjust that and sometimes also use the pinch/ pull to correct the other side??? I usually drill several holes around and weld them further down before welding the top. Wouldnt you want to heat the entire thing, let it cool even then just balance it and not mes with heated friction tightening/ adjustments that could self re adjust? Or are they stretching the metal for permanant placement? Was looking at a few old ones i made when young. No balance weights on many of them, some one side, a few both sides because the shop said they were perfect. (They werent being lazy either. If they didnt need balancing i didnt get charged but they still sanded, painted and returned them with their logo. Id offer to pay but they only let me when it needs it. Never had one need a weight biger than 2 quarters and i still have some of my shafts running 10+ years no problems. i run everything hard. Also curious about the force they use to press the shaft on, that cant be good on those new u joins.

nice video. I will contact them to order one for my drift car

i agree appears well worth it!

I would have guessed over twice as much for that DS.

I did that when I worked for Wagner Mining Equipment co. I built big ass drivelines for underground mining equipment. Great job worked by myself didn’t have to deal with shop B/S great job I can do that all day long , low stress level. And every machine that rolled out of the plant I’d look hay my drivelines at work.😃😃😃

What is the type of steel used? Casted or forged?

you guys make retractable axles?

That long sleeve shirt is making my eye twitch! Good work though. 😎🤙

Cool video. Thanks for sharing your skills and secrets. But please be careful, guys... Long sleeves around rotating machinery? It makes me nervous.

That's awesome

1 more value knowledge i learn.

Excellent advertising

What a Craftsman.

interesting how all you haters who probably have never changed a tire let alone a u joint talk shit, this guy built my buddies drive shaft for his car running just under a 900 wheel horsepower on an old fox body platform and has not broken yet after 7 years of racing and you say his work is no good, I say his work is excellent and his driveshaft is on its 8th season of drag racing in my buddies car, goes to show you know shit about nothing

One very important thing when measuring for the drive shaft is the car must be at ride height. Not with the suspension drooped down at all or with to much weight in the back. Thought I would give that as a tip is all!! Cool video though!!

My driveshaft shop in the San Gabriel Valley does not have a water hose in it, all metal is preheated before welding, then cooled naturally before balancing. U-joints are pressed in at the end and clean grease is used. THIS VIDEO is a great example of of how sloppy and quick work is accomplished and made to look good in the end.

Would suck if the seal on the hydraulic jack went out when you are under the car. use jack stands.

True American craftsman.

Damn I'm in San Diego... I can make the trip up there. I want one!!!😁

I'm just glad to see that the car didn't drop on them

Nice video, I'm trying my best to take a nice video of our drive shaft.

measure with vernier caliper?

On an old mercedes diesel has anyone ever re ousted the shaft defeating the flex coupler 3 longer bolts on each end direct drive. I filled in the motor mounts and hanger bearing mount with eurathane so their more solid so they don't tear or flatten out. So again 6 longer bolts direct drive and let the U joint t be the flex point only,how many times have I been tempted to try it to no longer need new flex disc's anymore.

Man this brings memories ! This was my first duty as a young tool maker I start as tool maker doing this job when I was 16 .im 40 now. Seen this video remains me how fucking stress I was doing this being scare to fuck it up lol and get my ads run off .by the way nothing clean as this shop lol

Great 👍

Stainless for 2010 Silverado?

Tomas is a bad brother.......... nice 👍

BAD ASS!!!

True Craftsman.

😳Where are your jack stands?

Two things surprised me for a machine shop. First, measurement are made with a regular tape instead of a fast , precise and simple caliper....and after welding the balancing weight, was the shaft rechecked ( for the weight added by the welding)?

i would pay $430 for that.