Had a drive shaft made this week from here http://www.machineservice.com/ have to drop the exhaust a bit to get it in will try it soon.the procedure they wanted is to push the yoke all the way into the trans and pull out an inch and measure center to center of joints.they supplied the 1350 at the rear and matching th350 yoke with a 1350 for the front.U-bolt hardware also.
Did you tell them you are using a Ford rear end ? I took out the driveshaft of My Vega when I first got it and it had this problem. Ford used thicker U-joint caps at the pinion yoke. So going from GM to Ford requires a conversion U-joint with 1310's at least.
I see what your saying,here's some u joint IDs http://driveshaftspecialist.com/HTML%20 ... Guide.html When ordered center section from Randy's Ring and Pinion specified a 1350 pinion yoke which measures 1 3/16 at the caps.The drive shaft mfg. used a 1350 trans yoke to match,should be good thanks.
Put in some of the steering parts this weekend started with centering the rack to get the steering wheel centered.Both stop bolts installed measured 2 7/8 at both sides
Cut some large paint sticks at that size and installed on both sides
locked rack at center
Had to pull the exhaust manifold back off and got the shaft on with the steering wheel centered but got tougher to tighten a 3/4 lock nut on the heim joint.Had to grind open a couple of crow feet to 1 1/8 to work the nut tight from top and bottom
both shafts tight to the heim joint drilled a 1/4 hole and put in a hardened bolt
heat shield fits but rubs on the bottom so needs forming there
Lubed up the bushings with this.Supposed to help stop squeaks on the see how it goes
Working on an idea I have borrowed from the front wheel drive world in where the front sway bar is mounted behind the front axles on the engine cradle.Have center two frame rails for mounting and looks like the sway bar center may pass near the torque converter area.took some measurements and found this Hellwig 55905 https://www.amazon.com/Hellwig-55905-Tu ... B0046LLHCE and ordered one.It's a 1 1/8 tubular for a Plymouth duster and turns out to be perfect on width.
clamped it up and looks good for fit
Made some plates for more thickness on the frame tubes
Welded them on
marked holes and tapped 7/16 14 holes
The ends ended up under the control arm channel in order to clear the front tire so used the supplied brackets and trimmed them to fit
Working on the rear now with the Scarebird https://scarebird.com/ 9" ford disk brackets that use 1988 or so T-bird turbo coupe rear calipers and also ordered the hoses from the T-bird.
These have brackets on them but there is no way they are going to fit near the body or caliper area so fooled with them for a while and decided to mount along the housing instead.drilled 7/16 holes in them and welded 7/16 mounting nuts to housing
bolted up and just clears the shocks
ground tabs off and smoothed the gave a coat of clear
Sorting out front wheel adapters and with the 1" thick adapter was a note that the lug nuts may have to be ground to not protrude out from the wheel mounting face,which is the case here.
Also the small nut on left won't do but 'shouldered' lug nuts are required