You are definately correct on your fabrication methods ! True metal fabricators fabricate on how he see fits ! It is your sinature trade mark that seperate you from the rest, its unique ! Thanks for the very awesome video !
This is not how you shorten a housing. Don't follow this advice. We place every housing into a lathe. V groove and machine the axle tube and ends. They are press fit and checked with a dial indicator has the housing is spun. Then we varify the brake flange has a zero reading. I would like to throw his housing on my lathe with a dial indicator.
Pretty sure his axle did not cost him $1000 plus in labor as well ... some things simply just have to be good enough.. and when you are doing it your self without the 80 thousand dollar machine shop in the back yard ? sometimes good enough is exactly that good enough. the people that are narrowing their own rear ends are not your customers anyway. they will never show up at your shop because paying your labor fee is not an option or in the budget. Yeah he did some shit wrong but anyone watching this can easily pick up the mistakes and modify the build. You do realize the rear axle housing is not a driveshaft the housing does not spin 7500 rpm so your room for error is quite large. no need to be strong enough for a top fuel dragster if you do not own one ..
@@mathewhoffer4541 Not having the axles tubes and or axles parallel to the ground and not forward or backwards from the chassis. Will, cause the vehicle not to track correct, tires would be scuffing across the ground or unequal tire patch contact. Not taking in perspective axle bearing wear, axle stress, differential carrier side gear bore damage. Sure plenty of people try to shorten their own differentials. Spend your money wisely and do it right the first time. Otherwise, it will be a money pit.
Most important detail is to drill out the weld where tube goes into housing. Removve rom that end then its a pretty tight fit back n. Fill the big hole and tube is fast. This is some guy with 10 years experience. Bout to upload from my channel today
Getting ready to take 4 inches off both sides of my rear, going to use arc weld though, don't have tig, will do a little then jump to the other side to even out the heat so I don't warp it. The last rear I narrowed was a 9 inch 30 years ago.
Arc welder blow .. these days you can get a 3 in one tig and arc and plasma machine for less then $500 My ramsond was dirt cheap and the plasma gun section works flawlessly. Only gripe is it doesn't do aluminum.
You need to bevel each side of the tube so when you weld the root pass it can easily burn the edge of the V groove for full penetration, then fill and cap the V groove
Looks good to me. It looks like a Dana 60. What I want to know is how did you narrow the drive axle? I've got a 60 I would like to narrow to build a small tractor for getting through the trees to cut firewood. So it's only going to have about 10 HP going through it and will top out at about 15 MPH. What do ya think? Go Wisconsin!
You need to invest in a auto darkening helmet. You have no idea of how much better your welds get exponentially when not opening and closing the hood. You are looking at 10 times improvement and helmets are dirt cheap.
@@deanvigna7519 my grandma can run mig lmao im certified welder mig aint shit mig also doesnt pay shit unless your running suitcase mig in like a shipyard which sucks dick stick and tig all the way baby!
Thats the worst way to do it. Every axel tube i have ever checked is not true and straight from the factory because they weld perches and bracket on them. So basically you are taking a tube with a curve and forcing it straight; therefore not putting it back to its original location. This will wear out your axel bearings prematurely. You may not notice it because most cars with narrowed axes dont see alot of miles. But if you want to do it right you must use a jig or fixture.. hopefully people arent going 110mph when they lose their bearings ...Also by the time you are done welding it it will have warped reguardless, because things move when you weld them
@@chrisdesimone4920 he doesn't understand the engineering allowances for production tolerances. I always get amused at people who think any car produced on a factory production line is perfect........very far from it. It is amazing how well something put together with wide tolerance allowances can be reliable. They just have to know the limits.
You are definately correct on your fabrication methods ! True metal fabricators fabricate on how he see fits ! It is your sinature trade mark that seperate you from the rest, its unique ! Thanks for the very awesome video !
This is not how you shorten a housing. Don't follow this advice. We place every housing into a lathe. V groove and machine the axle tube and ends. They are press fit and checked with a dial indicator has the housing is spun. Then we varify the brake flange has a zero reading. I would like to throw his housing on my lathe with a dial indicator.
No V groove at all..! and I'm going to guess that the tig didn't penetrate that last 1/4 "....
Pretty sure his axle did not cost him $1000 plus in labor as well ... some things simply just have to be good enough.. and when you are doing it your self without the 80 thousand dollar machine shop in the back yard ? sometimes good enough is exactly that good enough. the people that are narrowing their own rear ends are not your customers anyway. they will never show up at your shop because paying your labor fee is not an option or in the budget. Yeah he did some shit wrong but anyone watching this can easily pick up the mistakes and modify the build. You do realize the rear axle housing is not a driveshaft the housing does not spin 7500 rpm so your room for error is quite large. no need to be strong enough for a top fuel dragster if you do not own one ..
@@mathewhoffer4541 Not having the axles tubes and or axles parallel to the ground and not forward or backwards from the chassis. Will, cause the vehicle not to track correct, tires would be scuffing across the ground or unequal tire patch contact. Not taking in perspective axle bearing wear, axle stress, differential carrier side gear bore damage. Sure plenty of people try to shorten their own differentials. Spend your money wisely and do it right the first time. Otherwise, it will be a money pit.
Most important detail is to drill out the weld where tube goes into housing. Removve rom that end then its a pretty tight fit back n. Fill the big hole and tube is fast. This is some guy with 10 years experience. Bout to upload from my channel today
Getting ready to take 4 inches off both sides of my rear, going to use arc weld though, don't have tig, will do a little then jump to the other side to even out the heat so I don't warp it. The last rear I narrowed was a 9 inch 30 years ago.
Arc welder blow .. these days you can get a 3 in one tig and arc and plasma machine for less then $500 My ramsond was dirt cheap and the plasma gun section works flawlessly. Only gripe is it doesn't do aluminum.
You need to bevel each side of the tube so when you weld the root pass it can easily burn the edge of the V groove for full penetration, then fill and cap the V groove
i like your tack method. im going to use that. also like your tube method with the angle iron. deffiently going in the toolbox.
Might be a stupid question but, What do you do about axles shafts? order custom length ones? how?
typically you narrow based on the shorter side. you either buy another axle or go to a junk yard and pull one out.
Why not to put another piece of tube inside?
Thanks for the lesson, I have to strengthen my axle, as it is badly kicked by over welding by previous cowboy.
Looks good to me. It looks like a Dana 60. What I want to know is how did you narrow the drive axle? I've got a 60 I would like to narrow to build a small tractor for getting through the trees to cut firewood. So it's only going to have about 10 HP going through it and will top out at about 15 MPH. What do ya think? Go Wisconsin!
U could prob cut and weld them
@@sbdfabrication2694
Thanks.
Any shop with a Bridgeport mill can cut and respline the axles.
Yikes. That’s one hokey way to narrow a rear end but I guess if you don’t know any better....smh.
Yikes is right..!
Butt welding an axle tube🤯 no inner or outer sleeve🤤 no alignment bar 🤔.
Sir where need narrowe to decide cut & new weld can you say
Not sure what ur asking
where you located ?
Kimberly wi
That was a axle tube not axle btw. I'm looking for a video to narrow the actual axle
great job :)
You need to invest in a auto darkening helmet. You have no idea of how much better your welds get exponentially when not opening and closing the hood. You are looking at 10 times improvement and helmets are dirt cheap.
I would think mig would be a stronger weld then tig on an axle tube myself.
There is a root pass with the tig for penetration and then a cover pass
You would think wrong. Much more control and penetration with tig. Mig is for donkeys with no talent
@@deanvigna7519 Umm yeah...Thats a crock of shit statement.
@@deanvigna7519 my grandma can run mig lmao im certified welder mig aint shit mig also doesnt pay shit unless your running suitcase mig in like a shipyard which sucks dick stick and tig all the way baby!
@@deanvigna7519 Being a welder is for donkeys with no job skills.
So I thought I was going to watch an axle being narrowed as stated NOT an axle housing !!!!!
Thats the worst way to do it. Every axel tube i have ever checked is not true and straight from the factory because they weld perches and bracket on them. So basically you are taking a tube with a curve and forcing it straight; therefore not putting it back to its original location. This will wear out your axel bearings prematurely. You may not notice it because most cars with narrowed axes dont see alot of miles. But if you want to do it right you must use a jig or fixture.. hopefully people arent going 110mph when they lose their bearings ...Also by the time you are done welding it it will have warped reguardless, because things move when you weld them
Question: If it's not true or straight from the factory, how does it then last hundreds of thousands of miles?
@@chrisdesimone4920 he doesn't understand the engineering allowances for production tolerances. I always get amused at people who think any car produced on a factory production line is perfect........very far from it. It is amazing how well something put together with wide tolerance allowances can be reliable. They just have to know the limits.