card board inside a driveshaft?? WTH

[85_Ranger4x4]

Can you imagine the striped bruise that will leave on someone when you "whop 'em upside the head" with one of those? Much better than wrapping paper tubes.

Especially if you don't remove the packaging it shipped in....

 

[PetroleumJunkie412]

Ordering one.

Was told that's an engineering number, not a part number, and that I can't order it.






Sad!

 

[Shran]

I have cut up a few driveshafts to shorten or use for exhaust tubing and have seen cardboard in a couple of them.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Was told that's an engineering number, not a part number, and that I can't order it.






Sad!

The prefix is kind of screwy for an actual part number

But then so is putting cardboard in drivesahfts...

 

[superj]

We never put weird stuff like that in helicopter drive shafts. Or engine power turbine shafts. I balanced the heck out of those after we overhauled them

 

[PetroleumJunkie412]

We never put weird stuff like that in helicopter drive shafts. Or engine power turbine shafts. I balanced the heck out of those after we overhauled them

I'd put weird stuff in a helicopter drive shaft...

 

[fixizin]

At the U-pick yard I once saw a Ford driveshaft that was a museum piece--an actual Work of Art! IIRC it was on Thee Last of The RBVs, aka Explorer Sport-Trac... it looked like ALUMINUM... completely rust-free, almost a brushed nickel finish... does that sound at all plausible?... or did I accidentally rub against a magic mushroom while crawling around in the dirt?
I wondered what FOAD oversight was this an expensive solution to? Or was it an aftermarket purchase by an OCD owner?... I don't remember it being raised or otherwise mod'd in a way that would require a new "propeller" shaft. <<--(doncha love when shop manuals call it that!?... )