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- Vehicle Year
- 1983
- Make / Model
- Ford
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- 302
- Transmission
- Automatic
Here's my situation, my truck is an '86 ranger extended cab 4x4 with a 2.9 and i swapped from an A4LD to a C4 and added a 4 inch suspension lift. The c4 is roughly 4 inches shorter than the A4LD. So i need a longer drive shaft so we went to a place that makes them and they said with my tire size (31's) and my gearing (stock 3.73's) that if they made a one piece drive shaft it would bow and eventually blow apart (has to be 67" 5/16 long) and they said for a once piece to work i would need a bigger pipe but because the u-joints on it are so small they can't make the pipe any bigger, meaning the bigger pipe won't physically fit on the smaller u-joint coupler, or what ever the piece is called the u joint is held in. So what would everyone suggest i do? 1 or 2 piece? how can i get a bigger pipe with u joints that could handle everything and still bolt up correctly?