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You know something, you might have just found the best solution for Tremor owners. Best by default as it may be the only solution because as mentioned before we haven't yet been able to figure out a 1-piece shaft for the Tremor. I'll pour another bushing tonight. DM me your name and address and...

You can't have the last name of Wood and work with shafts all day without having a keen awareness of double entendre. @Superspirit The pics of the urethane bushing? Right here.

It's almost as though I've known what I'm doing all along. :sunglasses: Update on the bushing. I made a bushing yesterday. Cast in out of urethane directly in the stock drive shaft. Turned out well. I then tried to use that bushing to make a negative mold out of more urethane. Unsurprisingly...

I just stumbled upon something interesting. I was trying to help answer some questions for a guy, with a Tacoma with a stock two-piece rear shaft, 5.29 gears, and 32 inch tires. He wanted to know if it is safe for him to pass people at around 90 mph. I told him, "definitely don't buy our drive...

@Shawn at Tom Wood's Do you know of something that could be mixed and poured in there that would still have some flex to it? Or maybe if too stiff a series of holes could be drilled around it to give more flex ? I can't imagine anything I cram in there will stay long term , the electric cord...

As a side note to the post above and the google searches: If you do a non-image search for "driveshaft carrier bearing failure" the top result is this https://vehiclefreak.com/10-bad-carrier-bearing-symptoms-causes-fixes/. This article is total baloney. They even say that a check engine light...

Let's talk more about drive shaft failures. I already explained it, what types of failures are most common, but lets back that up with some evidence so that you all don't have to rely on my word. Trust but verify, remember? Take a look at a couple of google image searches for examples of...

I really should just walk away from this conversation at some point but here's some insight as to why shafts fail, as someone who has been a part of the industry for 23 years. Almost always the moving parts fail. When/if a tube fails it us usually because the tube got dented against a rock or...

Two gallons of 2-part urethane ordered. I'll let you guys know how it goes. I know it! We have quite a few products that no-one else has. I'm not even talking about drive shafts, but drive shaft components and transfer case slip yoke eliminators. Ironically, a couple of these things started as...

I'm not one to say something like "Don't you know who I am?! I'm an expert and I know everything, listen to what I say!" but also, yeah, I'm sort of an expert. :wink: Our company name may be new to the Ford Ranger world but if you look around in the Jeep and 4X4 world I think you'll find that...

I of course know how economy of scale works. But we aren't exactly buying parts 10 at a time either. Last year we built around 15,000 drive shafts and spent $3,626,349 on drive shaft parts. That means we are purchasing pretty dang close to $10K a day, 365 days a year. Believe it or not we...

This is what's known in the biz as a Harper's Ferry Hybrid. Similar to a Tennessee Tesla.

Haha, well I agree then. Rules are rules, best we abide.

I have a stock shaft here, that I purchased just for the sake of measuring flanges and other R & D. I don't have much of a use for it anymore. If you do the poly/urethane pour thing and it doesn't work, I'll send you this stock shaft for free. I'd say that I'll pour the urethane here and send...

In response to a couple recent posts: @Muddy Fenders I think the way to do it would be to get the 2-part urethane mix, mix it up, and use something like this to pour it in around the cavity on the backside of the stock rubber bushing. Then let that harden. You'd have to remove the shaft and...

Here's an idea: Who of you with a shuddering drive shaft wants to be a brave pioneer and try pouring polyurethane into your carrier bearing bushing? The stock shaft I have here as a sample has a big cavity on one side of it. I think you could pour polyurethane into this cavity to make a hybrid...

Regarding the quotes about fools and suckers, I prefer this quote: Sunlight is the best disinfectant. About the assertion that this isn't a major issue because it doesn't affect every truck. You are missing the point. It is a major issue to those whom it does affect. And there appears to be a...

@TJC, @navsnipe, and others such as @quangdog : Your posts reporting on how well the shaft is working for you make me very happy, thank you. This is and always has been how I measure our success as a business/brand, by how good of a job we can do and by how happy we can make our customers. My...

We don't. We don't build any two piece rear shafts. That is primarily because we are a specialized shop, building shafts for Jeeps and small trucks, no full size truck shafts. Theoretically though, a two piece would need to be balanced as a complete assembly but I believe that the problem with...

I've said this to a few people, that I can physically deflect the rubber bearing mount radially by hand. I'm no wimp but it doesn't require much of my strength and I'm a 170lb person, not a 4,000 truck. If I can easily deflect the rubber, of course the truck will be able to. A stiffer bearing...