card board inside a driveshaft?? WTH

[85_Ranger4x4]

I was going to say I don't remember if there was a rhyme or reason but both steel and aluminum on newer trucks were pretty common the JY when I was trying to find a driveshaft for my '85.

Pretty much all of them had been kinked from being moved with a payloader though.

Yet another reason why lifted truck works out better. Now the driveshaft isn't too long. LOL!

Plot twist, they went back using carrier bearings again.

 

[SenorNoob]

Yeah I know. It does have multiple advantages if you can adjust it for altered ride height though. Especially if you like to play in rocks.

 

[JohnnyO]

Yet another reason why lifted truck works out better. Now the driveshaft isn't too long. LOL!

Always lift it. Fat chicks can't jump.

 

[fixizin]

Err, umm, Hello FoMoCo!... *I* would like a new sexy NON-clunking/NON-clanging "AL-oo-MIN-yum" (those wacky Brits) driveshaft!... too late?

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So it would appear that Ford went back and forth between steel and aluminum depending on what the supplier was able to make. At the time Ford was building Rangers as fast as they could and selling them as soon as went out the door.

I don't know about that last part... my '99 SuperCab 4x4 3.0 V-VIN Manual XL (hand-cranked windows) rolled off the Twin Cities line in Jan. 1999, and was still sitting on the lot with at least 3 other triple-pedal '99 4x4s--and a LOT of 2000s--in Late October 1999... got a purdy good deal out of that timing.

 

[fixizin]

I was going to say I don't remember if there was a rhyme or reason but both steel and aluminum on newer trucks were pretty common the JY when I was trying to find a driveshaft for my '85.

Pretty much all of them had been kinked from being moved with a payloader though.
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