square driveshaft

All right after tearing up my drive shaft the last time out it left me with two options.
1. go downto the junkyard and get another on for probly a good piece of change.
2. go with the sye kit which forces me to have to buy custom drive shaft.

The $550 price tag on that Idea didn't look so great plus if I hit another rock im out of a $200 shaft. Since this jeep is a trailer queen I came up with the idea of going with the square driveshaft were you have one piece of square thick wall steel that slides into the next like you see on farm equipment and stuff. So for $40 I got enough medal to make two drive shafts. I figured the stock shaft I got now is 30" minus the part that goes into the TC. So I figured if I cut the two pieces at 20" this would give me about 7"of workable play with a fail safe of about 9" or so. I'm going to drill and tap the outside square so I can put a grease fitting in and get grease in between the pieces of medal so the slide smoothly. I'm guessing the thick wall steel should be alot tougher then the old drive shaft seeing that they make rock sliders out of that stuff. Plus if I bend it I just cut off the ends and reweld it. I know this has been done before on a jeep so I was wondering if anyone else had luck with this set up. I'm going to try to get this fabed up over the next couple of days so when I finish i'll post up some pics. One of these days I'll get a real drive shaft for the road but I figured this would be cheap fix to get the jeep back on the trail.

I would do it. .25 wall thickness, 2 and 1.5in. only a little grease needed because it is not a really tight fit. if you run beads down the sides or corners of the large tube it will tighten it up a bit. That will be my next front shaft.

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