Driveshaft

[albertb]

Im gonna put a 6" skyjacker on my 93 single cab long bed 4x4 do I need to do anything with my driveshafts? Im not going to off road much mostly just daily the truck.

 

[sgtsandman]

I know with one if the lift kits, a replacement front drive shaft is available to prevent over extension and improve the u-joint angles for better reliability. I'm not sure if the kit you are looking at is one of them but with that much of a lift, it might be. I don't remember anything about the rear shaft.

 

[4x4junkie]

On a '93 regular-cab truck, there should be no need to do anything with the driveshafts. Both should be fine as they are. It's possible you might need to remove the wedge shims off the Skyjacker rear leaf packs for the rear pinion angle, however this is a case-by-case thing.

 

[Curious Hound]

I installed the 6" skyjacker kit on my 93 single cab short bed and kept the original shafts. So far everything seems fine.

 

[scotts90ranger]

As long as it is a single piece rear drive shaft you don't have to worry about anything. As Junkie was talking about, if the rear shaft has a dual cardan joint at the transfer case you want the pinion pointing at the transfer case if not a touch down, if single U joint at each end you want the transfer case flange and pinion flange parallel.

I'm running stock shafts on mine, one is custom but just because regular cab short bed shafts are hard to find in 4x4 in the junkyard... at least when I needed one bad