Trashed driveshaft

[SenorNoob]

IDK about anything newer, but my 88 had the tiny u-joints and the really small flange on the axle. I swapped the flange from a newer truck, so it's a bolt in affair.

The crossmember is completely gone and I daily drive it. (Just a few weeks now.) It had a couple notches sticking through the frame rails. One on each side. To get that loose, I ground down as much as could from outside the frame without nicking it and used a jack under the crossmember to lift it up and bend what's left of the tabs. BTW, you have to have the driveshaft out first or there isn't enough room to lift the crossmember far enough.

Also, another person who hasn't had a rubbing problem with the steel shaft. And I have a habit of taking one right turn onto another road that's in the middle of a banked curve at speed, under hard acceleration. (WOT, 4th gear, and the road is basically a wide speed bump with one side taller than the other right there.) Surely that flexes something.

 

[FritzTKatt]

We're talking more along the lines of tire completely stuffed into the wheel well. I can do that, got pictures somewhere if you'd like them. DD shouldn't be an issue.

I still need help with my wiring, if anyone cares to look, I put it in the 4.0l section.