*You Drive it to ford... With Hidden Cameras...* Say it broke down on side of the road out of town.. Small Shop Fixed it... But now Car is shaking a lot...
well that 4 rotor has a lot of sponsors i give Cleetus a lot of credit with his builds and if he was into the car builder scene I'm sure the guys couldn't make something real cool
yea i'd say find a wood channel to custom make this driveshaft so that it's completely ballanced and make it out of quality wood, there's gotta be a grain thing that can improve the strength.
Truthfully using pine or cedar on this wasn’t smart...bet you a good cherry or hardwood spun on a lathe would have been stronger. Also maybe treated/stained.
Yes hickory would be about the best if you can find it also have it done on a path by a wood turning channel would be a great idea never seen a calab between car channel and a wood channel think of the cross ratings.
Truing it up with a grinder would make it run much smoother but wood is pretty weak when it comes to torque transfer along the grain, it's going to disintegrate no matter how many hose clamps you put on it. Pine power is no match for pony power.
Imagine buying a bargain stang you hear the driveshaft break after driving it for a few days on the highway and see a piece of wood dangling from under your car LOL.
Ironbark gum mate but you guys probably don't import it to america then again I don't know. I thought exactly the same thing as you. Had a great idea go to farm supply store and buy a fence post or 2
Man I love it when an old cleet vid pops up in my feed. If this happens to you you better gosh darn watch it every time it happens🤣. This is such a throwback I remember when this video came out. This and the electric turbo video make me laugh every time. Honestly any cleet vid makes me laugh 99% of the time. Then sometimes there’s a video that would bring a 290 pound hells angels biker man to tears with how sad it is and brother I cry every time there is a sad one. Gonna miss this legend when he’s gone. Hope yah live to be 120 cleet brother I love yah❤
The grain of the wood matters! The first piece you showed that had concentric rings would probably hold up better! Imagine twisting a whole onion, then imagine twisting an onion sliced in half. Which one is harder to break?
Actually you're wrong. Core wood is often checked and full of cracks and imperfections. You want a good section of straight grain with no core and no knots.
you should have tried a more stronger wood ive heard that morning wood is one of the hardest woods available still dont know if it would survive a clutch drop?..
Ash or hickory. Both should be plentiful in Florida and both should have good characteristics for the application. There is a reason most quality tools are handled with hickory and ash. Osage orange should be plentiful there too and I hear it is a good bow material. The springiness and strength might help make it a good driveshaft material.
Now, a piece of straight grain hard wood, turn it round in a lathe. Proper industrial epoxy with some holes for the epoxy. Will work and let you drive the car, burnout near certainly not.
Cement with rebar inside. You could easily make a cylindrical mold from a 3-4" PVC pipe or something. You cold also just do a PVC pipe filled with cement.
They should make the driveshaft out of same material cut end open slide the wood in the driveshaft fill the entire driveshaft with wood weld it shut and take it for a drive
Spray foam... But I'd just use wood but soak it in water for a day and dry it out, make it round and smooth and balanced and it'd last a while...edit, I would jam it into the ends with no glue and a little loose then add water, let it expand, dry, and then instead of glue I would make some mounts or a bracket or something else for support and connect it better, glue was stupid because this thing has no balance... Without balance it's not gonna last at all... I'd also research wood types and try to find something that has some flex to it maybe not hardwood but idk.
Go for distance on the next homemade wood driveshaft. Avoid the harsh take offs (and burnouts) and shifting. I’d bet you could get pretty far keeping the speeds lower. Awesome experiment. Great video.
mr sexy psycho, ever consider that he might have been doing a voice activation and he did not edit it mr. sexy psycho?? Now, let me see here, hummmm... mr. sexy psycho..... Huh..... mr. sexy psycho.... Wow.... mr. sexy phycho.... Ladies and gentlemen, Cleetus McFarland and all the McFarlane RUclips fans and all of RUclips fans alike Looks like we have a sexual predator on our hands. Hide your children!!! Hide your wives your husband's your nieces, your nephew's, your grandma's and your grandpa's!!! Hide your dogs and cats and especially hide your gerbils!!! We have a psycho with no shame in his game he is a sexual predator and nobody is safe. I bet that psychos zipper is down as we speak due to all the attention he is just now received and especially because the mention of gerbils. Again hide your children and your pets!! Hide the family and Neighbors!!! I can't express it enough, A chomo is on the loose!!! How do you like me now DUMB ASS!!!
One thing to try that might work, ply board rolled into a tube, two layers maybe at 4mm thickness with the ply at 45 deg to the longitudinal axis of the shaft. The layers should have the grains run 90 deg to each other, so one 45 deg the other -45 deg relative to the shaft. Reason for this is the max stress in a torque tube is at 45 degrees (if its straight that is, hopefully McFarland fab will win on this one ;) ) so you need the grains lined up with that, otherwise it will splinter like this one did cause all you have is the bond between fibres which isn't that strong in wood. So pretty much like a carbon fibre torque tube would be. To get sufficient torque transfer without shredding the ply where it meets the ends of the shaft, you'd have to have plenty of length to the joint and use a strong epoxy. Bolts are out since they'll probably rip the ply, they concentrate stress hard core You'd need to steam bend the sheets into a tube. Probably use sheets that give you a larger tube than you need, then cut to size. Kinda like making a jam rolly poly really. Material choice? Well Spruce ply is our bet, they made the DeHavilland Mosquito out of it, that thing really did rip.
Just watched the diesel as oil science episode. Had to come back to the first video I watched from the trending page. Hell yeah brother. Been watching for 3 years now
Cooper: "it's stronger than the V1's driveshaft" Driveshaft ideas Concrete sono tube, empty and full PVC pipe Abs pipe Fence post pipe Rebar Exhaust pipe
That's all I could think during the entire video. Just like; "Hey, I just bought this car and it's got a little bit of vibration. Can you check it out?" 😆
I’m just here to say that this is my favorite channel on RUclips I just finished the World Cup video and everytime I watch these guys I feel like I’m their best friend I love the vibe this channel has and the passion these guys have I’ve been with this channel since pretty much day one and I’ve never been more proud of people i don’t personally know in my life, you’ll always get my support boys, bog deep letter eat baby!
Hell yeah brothers that was a great idea! I think if you took multiple pieces of plywood and glued them together to make a 4x4 it would be WAY stronger due to the alternating grain of the plywood. It might even handle a burnout. Maybe even wrap it in flex tape for extra stiffness. Bog deep and let 'er eat!
This was great, and absolutely hilarious. As a General Contractor, I would really love to see this succeed. I'd love to see this using an Oak Dowel rather than a 4x4... I think it would give it one of the best chances for success.
Yup, oak is more than twice as strong. Also, shaping it on a lathe would give better fit and less runout. Now imagine putting it in a 60s/70s Japanese car with 45/60hp, and it might actually work...
B is for build: "here is our finished custom widebody, 1500hp, twin turbo, ls swapped, manual, lamborghini huracan unveiling at sema!" Cletus: "Hold my bartle skeet while i build a driveshaft out of wood"
Sees cleetus and the boys at home depot: "Hey guys working on the new side of shop today?" "Naw, we're building a wooden driveshaft for the mustang. No seriously, tune in next week."
All the "you need to focus on Leroy" comments. Do yall not realize he does this channel for fun not just drag racing. Have fun man lifes too short to be serious all the time.
When I saw the grain on the end of the post I knew it would fail. Use a post made from the center of the tree. Use a hardwood like oak. Turn it on a wood lathe. Or maybe use a metal post from the Freedom Factory chain link fence that needs to be replaced.
Oak would probably not be great for it, but certainly better than the fir that 4x4 is made of. Bamboo is an interesting thought. My money would still be on a wood like hickory or ash which is hard, dense and handles shock well.
2 tenths of runout is easily acceptable in many applications. 2 thou of runout is sometimes, rarely, acceptable, but you can do better. 2 inches of runout is new territory...
Hickory would be better. Green hickorynis some of the bendiest, stringest wood in the country. As a timber faller who used to work on the east coast, I HATED cutting hickory lol.
Do another one, while ideling in gear act as if it is on a lathe, smooth out the run out with a big grinder or something until balanced lol, then bog deep..
Lamination is the way to go strength-wise. Airplane fuselages,wings, and propellers have been built entirely from wood. Props in particular were used in mass production aircraft when steel was available. Using a proper hard species of wood makes all the difference. I know it's not in the spirit of the shtick (which was fun, I laughed really hard betweening the endless cringes. Complete click gold, aka the 3 stooges starring in "Let's build a manned rocket ship boys. They're throwing out a perfectly good cardboard refrigerator box down the street, if we hurry we can have it flight ready by dark. But yeah, it's totally do-able, in real life. Maybe this whole thing was just a prank on James now that I think about it. God I hope it was. Epic level of taking it seriously on his part. And you could tell he tried so hard not to be the guy who calls the whole thing out for what it was. You wonderful idiots continue to make me laugh and cry...laughing. You're living the dream! What I wouldn't give to be making driveshafts for cars using my portable band saw to cut my already good driveshaft recklessly into pieces so I could throw some early growth pine into the freshly minted void (created in total by yours truly while simultaneously keeping my so called "helpers" from screwing the whole hole up by calling it a section, or some such other nonsense when anyone who has seen it without exception reports having witnessed a true void, AKA a complete absence of anything, including any somethings).rest my case, bald eagles. Aside from having to explain my position on that whole void thing, I have always dreamed of doin' it with nails, when the situation clearly calls for steel and welding rod. Damnit James. Do a ten minute Google search on lamination processes, daydream about plywood for a while, and then go buy the right materials you need, find a friend who has a proper lathe, use a chop saw with metal cut-off wheel (blade) so you get a proper perpendicular cut. Do the same with your piece of freshly laminated and yup, turned wood. Make a line around the circumference of your piece exactly 12" from each end. You will have turned them down to a microscopically tapered diameter that exactly matches the inner diameter of the metal ends where they's round. Now just drive the wood into the metal so that the line you drew on the wood corresponds perfectly with the leading edge of the metal. Adjust as needed until above is achieved. No glue. Bore a hole through the metal and wood assembly 6" from where wood enters each metal section, measuring away from center, duh toward the outside man. Drop a stout bolt straight down through those 3 aligned holes you just made using your drill press , secure with washer and nut on opposing side where bolt exits, using enough torque to break a standard nipple on a Craftsman 3/8" extension. The last part should be done by James, using his own dang tools for once now. He can borrow the 4 foot breaker bar for the yielding part of the torque process. Extract the sacrificial extension nipple from your socket during your own time James, you on the clock. Get to installing my new driveshaft on that mustang. I accidentally left it running last night behind the shop. Push it on in here, and shut it off that exhaust might be a little warm. I think these drinks do have alcohol in them Note-
@@andrubackos1861 you are right my man. He beat his personal best but lost that race. I stand corrected but, in my defense I said to be more precise and I didn't pretend like I knew exactly. I would have known had I sat there and thought about it for a minute. So Tanks -a- bungie
pressure treated wood is weaker and just cause glue says it works on metal doesn't mean well they should lathe a stronger wood with 2 part epoxy for glue
Three things. 1. Maybe try a length of wood that had already been rounded in a lathe. That will go s long way to sorting the run out / centering issue and leaving the strength as something to look at. 2. The wood you used looked like it had some large void in it that had filled with sap, this probably isn't going to help much 3..try a denser wood than pine, maybe spruce or oak.
When I saw the thumbnail I thought “it wooden work”, and after seeing the how well they glued and bolted it to the metal ends I thought “maybe it wood work”, but after testing it out on the road it steel wooden work! 😆😆😆
Clovenhalo079 well you see there’s dad jokes which I have been for a long time now, and of late I was upgraded to grandfather status so I had to go to the next level in dad jokes lol 😅
What should we build a drive shaft out of next? My mullet?
Mountain Dew cans!
Hallowed by the mullet
Mullet 😂. Wonder how conduit would fare 🤔
Small fans on car charging batteries ??
3D print one!
*You Drive it to ford... With Hidden Cameras...*
Say it broke down on side of the road out of town.. Small Shop Fixed it...
But now Car is shaking a lot...
Yes
Omg lol
Hell yes!!!
LMFAO! YES!
that would be fucking hilarious
Would have been EPIC if you would have pulled into a shop and just said “it’s got a little vibration” then the reaction would have been AMAZING lol
😂😂😂😂😂
Great content idea
That would be funny.
@ Cleetus please do this 😂
That would be awesome...do it lol
Rob: Here are the most expensive carbon fiber driveshafts and axles for the awd 4 rotor.
Cleetus: Hold my wooden driveshaft.
Rob: closes eyes in panic when he launches in a drag race
Cleetus: Eyes on the prize
well that 4 rotor has a lot of sponsors i give Cleetus a lot of credit with his builds and if he was into the car builder scene I'm sure the guys couldn't make something real cool
Try different type wood like oak and a good lathe.
plywood cut in circles and stacked
yea i'd say find a wood channel to custom make this driveshaft so that it's completely ballanced and make it out of quality wood, there's gotta be a grain thing that can improve the strength.
Truthfully using pine or cedar on this wasn’t smart...bet you a good cherry or hardwood spun on a lathe would have been stronger. Also maybe treated/stained.
Hickory is my recommendation
Yes hickory would be about the best if you can find it also have it done on a path by a wood turning channel would be a great idea never seen a calab between car channel and a wood channel think of the cross ratings.
Rob Dahm: full carbon fiber drivetrain
Cleetus: hold my Mountain Dew
picklesthegreatest it is with that attitude
@@picklesthegreatest there's a difference between drivetrain and powertrain
@@picklesthegreatest you're kidding right? The engine and trans are the powertrain. The drivetrain is the axles, diff, and the driveshaft.
Carbon driveshafts actually exist...
Use a grinder to round it down while it’s in gear, then add hose clamps every 6” to keep it from splitting.
and maybe stagger the fasteners on the hose clamps for expert balancing
Gettin somewhere now. Idk about trying to turn the car into a lathe but maybe another shop could help them get one as round and straight as possible.
Truing it up with a grinder would make it run much smoother but wood is pretty weak when it comes to torque transfer along the grain, it's going to disintegrate no matter how many hose clamps you put on it. Pine power is no match for pony power.
Way too much thinking 👍 lol
I reckon they need to try it again as U said now they have their own track for shit to go wrong 🤙🤙
4” pvc pipe filled with cement
Might work but 4 in is way to big 3 in but cement would brake the car may expandable foam
Sced 40
Harder wood with hose clamps/zipties
@@Silvia388S no they should do it in cpvc schedule 80 that should hold up nicely
@@nyvinchenz9430 no dude, schedule 80 is thinwall need to try that super thin septic pipe
Rewatching old cleet vids to get a fix 😂
The algorithm decided I needed to rewatch these!
Yup
Cleetus “Guys, we’re going to get serious with Leroy and get him deep into the 7s. The plan is ..... wait, is that a chunk of wood?”
Mount a flag rocket to the front crashbar and shoot it 4 seconds into the run to to trip the beam
@@guganotubo you need to put this under cleets comment lol
You do realize this is a pre-filmed episode used to fill a content gap right?
Need to make more money, speed=money
You're the kind of viewer everyone wishes would just go away.
Words Home Depot and straight wood have never gone together in history
Lumber at Home Depot is like men who work in theatre. None of the good ones are straight.
Homo Depot
@@jaregg - sure is when you're there. Heard you pick em up by the truckload. Every Tuesday night.
That is a pretty warped perception, Joseph! ;-)
Truthh
Imagine buying an auction car and finding something like this.
Frig off
@Dion Diova ahh hahaha
@Dion Diova it's so perfect
Trailer park boys ftw
Don't listen to them, Randy.
It's funny James is still as completely serious and thoughtful as when he's getting Leroy ready for their races.
Should of taken it to a local shop for an oil change and film their reaction LOL!
Take it to Walmart for an oil change. lol
This!!!
@@gcomfx lol walmart probably wouldnt even notice.
Ryan Bitter yes!!!!!! Lol
Should have*
The open flame next to James had me sweatin. Classic.
Lol me too
Him leaning over and waving his arms right in front of it
They have brake cleaner, no danger at all 😂
Imagine buying a bargain stang you hear the driveshaft break after driving it for a few days on the highway and see a piece of wood dangling from under your car LOL.
Lol id probably just laugh
Imagine buying a car without lookin underneath it😂
I'd laugh so dam hard just thinking how high the previous owner was when he made that.
This episode sponsored by Garage 54.
Ayyyyy
Voice over and translation by b.m.i cleetus 😂
"Did about as well as the V1 stock driveshaft..." Cooper killed me with that, still laughing. :'-)
Somewhere in a 3rd world country someone has absolutely done this.
Rock crawlers often run square tube driveshafts
Do it in Guyana. Make them out of greenheart
Definitely!! Forsure
Soon America will be a 3rd world country
Cuba
You should of gotten a hardwood like hickory and then used a lathe to turn it to the exact diameter of the inside of the shaft. And attach with pins.
Forget the pins altogether... We don't NEED no steenking 'slipper clutch'... We built it into the driveshaft!
Ironbark gum mate but you guys probably don't import it to america then again I don't know. I thought exactly the same thing as you.
Had a great idea go to farm supply store and buy a fence post or 2
Man I love it when an old cleet vid pops up in my feed. If this happens to you you better gosh darn watch it every time it happens🤣. This is such a throwback I remember when this video came out. This and the electric turbo video make me laugh every time. Honestly any cleet vid makes me laugh 99% of the time. Then sometimes there’s a video that would bring a 290 pound hells angels biker man to tears with how sad it is and brother I cry every time there is a sad one. Gonna miss this legend when he’s gone. Hope yah live to be 120 cleet brother I love yah❤
The grain of the wood matters!
The first piece you showed that had concentric rings would probably hold up better!
Imagine twisting a whole onion, then imagine twisting an onion sliced in half. Which one is harder to break?
Yeah, I think galvanized banding in a torque tightening spiral over the wood would take a few more hp
"Ogers are like onions..." Wait, wrong movie.
@@guganotubo I like the idea of banding it. Maybe soak it in a gel clear stain and let it harden first then band it and duct tape it!
Just commenting so this thread gets more attention. Thats right Algorithm I know what you're doing
Actually you're wrong. Core wood is often checked and full of cracks and imperfections. You want a good section of straight grain with no core and no knots.
you should have tried a more stronger wood ive heard that morning wood is one of the hardest woods available still dont know if it would survive a clutch drop?..
Yeah you might need Adam LZ to help with that
Just tested. It didn't survive a clutch drop. Wait, you said MORNING wood! I'll get back to ya in 10 hours.
Real talk Ipe might work
Mine would😊
Ya u do 😆
What we learned: Gorilla glue is rated for at least 140hp
The Weapon Collection that’s what he is saying. Since the glue worked it is rated for AT LEAST 140 hp
@Real Donald Trump I don't doubt it but it doesn't make it any less impressive that store bought glue can still handle a significant load.
ya goAt
@Real Donald Trump true
@@ZZ-os4nb also true
Very underrated for the “scientific” projects you do :)
Everyone: “...”
Posers: “We’re at SEMA!”
Guys who actually go 7 seconds: “We’re building a driveshaft out of wood!”
🍻🐈🔥
This year it was actually called SUPRA
@@ArKritz84 and go kart and power wheel build off...
Seriously though, most car shows are mainly an industry circle-jerk. SEMA have just taken it a step further by being closed to the general public.
And strangely the wooden driveshaft is better fabbed than a LOT of the stuff at SEMA.
You guys are now certified “CAR”penters. Adept in working on vehicles AND wood.
Why did i scroll way too long to find this? lol
I rolled my eyes so hard that it made me sea sick. 👍
@@tylert69goat you turned my laugh into a wheeze
LOL,, perfect! Soo,, can we conclude when asked if a 4x4 and Gorilla Glue can suffice as a temporary drive line,, "And there you have it,,"
3" wood core (could start with a 4x4 and toss it on a lathe) with a good healthy fiberglass wrap thick enough to bring it up to 4"
Most of the load would be on the outside diameter, a styrofoam core glass fiber shaft would basically be the same, but lighter.
Ash or hickory. Both should be plentiful in Florida and both should have good characteristics for the application. There is a reason most quality tools are handled with hickory and ash. Osage orange should be plentiful there too and I hear it is a good bow material. The springiness and strength might help make it a good driveshaft material.
To see this from 4+ years ago to where he is now. Killing it. 💯
Hoonigan: Hey we made wooden wheels!!!
Cleeter: Hold my bardle Skeet!!!
Now, a piece of straight grain hard wood, turn it round in a lathe. Proper industrial epoxy with some holes for the epoxy. Will work and let you drive the car, burnout near certainly not.
Turn the wood using the drivetrain
You should use a much harder wood. And you should have it machined on a lathe the so it is perfectly balanced
Cypress would be a good thing to try.
I was going to comment this but you beat me to it
@@cajunspike ash or hickory (baseball bat wood)
Ipe also known as iron wood
Even on harder woods it would not work. Wood has poor torque resistance, where it really excels at is withstanding compression.
Cleetus, thanks SO MUCH. My credit score legit went up 26 points by using the Boost and it didn’t cost me a dime!
I can guarantee you that this is the fastest "Stick" shift Mustang in existence!
"You guys remember that list of priorities we came up with? Well, we just chucked it like we did this wooden drive shaft." 😁
Cement with rebar inside. You could easily make a cylindrical mold from a 3-4" PVC pipe or something.
You cold also just do a PVC pipe filled with cement.
Way to heavy lol
All that weight will snap the ujoints
I so don’t miss the old shop! So crazy how far cleeter has come in the last 4 years!
Why don’t you stick the car in gear an use it as a lathe to “finish” the driveshaft 😂
What Mr Rpalm said...it would least get a few more RPMs out of it...
They should make the driveshaft out of same material cut end open slide the wood in the driveshaft fill the entire driveshaft with wood weld it shut and take it for a drive
Wasnt that an episode of macgyver haha
@@kevinhibbard320 I think so
They could use the flap disc and the grinder and make it happen forsure
Get a PVC PIPE and fill it with different stuff and RIP it and when it breaks it's like a Piñata
Ruan Venter pvc pipe with concrete inside with steel reo 🤔
@@saulprokopavicius3628 too heavy at that point
@@Hbzprojects fuck, it doesnt matter if its heavy, it just needs to work, point a to b end world type shit... this is fascinating
Concrete will not handle that type of load very well at all. It has absolutely zero tensile strength
Spray foam... But I'd just use wood but soak it in water for a day and dry it out, make it round and smooth and balanced and it'd last a while...edit, I would jam it into the ends with no glue and a little loose then add water, let it expand, dry, and then instead of glue I would make some mounts or a bracket or something else for support and connect it better, glue was stupid because this thing has no balance... Without balance it's not gonna last at all... I'd also research wood types and try to find something that has some flex to it maybe not hardwood but idk.
Rachet Extension drive shaft, get a 36" extension , weld 1/2 drive adapter to a plate to driveshaft end, weld a socket to a plate on otherend.
1" drive 36" extension
Go for distance on the next homemade wood driveshaft. Avoid the harsh take offs (and burnouts) and shifting. I’d bet you could get pretty far keeping the speeds lower. Awesome experiment. Great video.
James: we are officially wood wigglers!
Cleetus: shove it up in there!
Cleetus: we might have clearance issues
Coop: no comment.
wood whittlers he said , dumb ass
mr sexy psycho, ever consider that he might have been doing a voice activation and he did not edit it mr. sexy psycho??
Now, let me see here, hummmm...
mr. sexy psycho.....
Huh.....
mr. sexy psycho....
Wow....
mr. sexy phycho....
Ladies and gentlemen,
Cleetus McFarland and all the McFarlane RUclips fans and all of
RUclips fans alike
Looks like we have a sexual predator on our hands.
Hide your children!!!
Hide your wives your husband's your nieces, your nephew's, your grandma's and your grandpa's!!!
Hide your dogs and cats and especially hide your gerbils!!!
We have a psycho with no shame in his game he is a sexual predator and nobody is safe. I bet that psychos zipper is down as we speak due to all the attention he is just now received and especially because the mention of gerbils.
Again hide your children and your pets!!
Hide the family and Neighbors!!!
I can't express it enough,
A chomo is on the loose!!!
How do you like me now
DUMB ASS!!!
“Whatever dude, this is just science.” T shirt time
One thing to try that might work, ply board rolled into a tube, two layers maybe at 4mm thickness with the ply at 45 deg to the longitudinal axis of the shaft. The layers should have the grains run 90 deg to each other, so one 45 deg the other -45 deg relative to the shaft.
Reason for this is the max stress in a torque tube is at 45 degrees (if its straight that is, hopefully McFarland fab will win on this one ;) ) so you need the grains lined up with that, otherwise it will splinter like this one did cause all you have is the bond between fibres which isn't that strong in wood. So pretty much like a carbon fibre torque tube would be.
To get sufficient torque transfer without shredding the ply where it meets the ends of the shaft, you'd have to have plenty of length to the joint and use a strong epoxy. Bolts are out since they'll probably rip the ply, they concentrate stress hard core
You'd need to steam bend the sheets into a tube. Probably use sheets that give you a larger tube than you need, then cut to size. Kinda like making a jam rolly poly really.
Material choice? Well Spruce ply is our bet, they made the DeHavilland Mosquito out of it, that thing really did rip.
To make it true center it’s should have been put on a wood turning lathe.
Just do it on the car. Its like i lathe. Cut the wood into a triangle
You don't say!
Wow! You're smart! 😂
Or maybe they should have used like a steel tube for the driveshaft? Hmm, I think i'm onto something...
Wow this guy is so smart. I never knew a lathe could be used to do that sort of thing.
Cleetus: "That's a nice piece of wood right there dude"
James: "Nice and straight"
Transgenders: RRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
I’m really digging that color on the Mustang.
Me too the body and color look pretty nice
Is that a 98?
Ford offers that color on their aluminum f150s
@@MarkCantu_SS it has the 94-96 tailights so it might be a 96 since it has the 4.6 v8 and not the 94-95's 5.0 v8.
@@lordXguru Thanks brother! I was really curious cleetus never clarify what it was besides mustang
Just watched the diesel as oil science episode. Had to come back to the first video I watched from the trending page. Hell yeah brother. Been watching for 3 years now
“That’s how it’s su-POST to be” James with the pun game
I actually didn't even pick up on that!
Forget wood, PVC pipe is the way to go.
What could they fill it with? Flex seal?
@@monkeybuttdevinlane Expanding foam!
JustiBoy filled with jb weld
@@monkeybuttdevinlane Cement lol
maybe pvc pipes fitted into each other and glued togheter so its a mix of glue and pvc and make it full
Cooper: "it's stronger than the V1's driveshaft"
Driveshaft ideas
Concrete sono tube, empty and full
PVC pipe
Abs pipe
Fence post pipe
Rebar
Exhaust pipe
Yes
Let's see one made out of bartle skeet cans
Flex tape
Yup
@Swampy that's the point! Gotta have some good failures in there too!
"You got a bit of brake cleaner to put it out"😂😂😂😂😂😂
Hell yeah brother👌
Use 8 or 9 dowels epoxied in. Like cable, one dowel surrounded by the rest.
This is a damn good idea.
Great idea
Excellent idea
I think their next drive line should be made out of nachos
It would have been funny to take it to a drive shaft shop to get balanced.
That's all I could think during the entire video. Just like;
"Hey, I just bought this car and it's got a little bit of vibration. Can you check it out?" 😆
I’m just here to say that this is my favorite channel on RUclips I just finished the World Cup video and everytime I watch these guys I feel like I’m their best friend I love the vibe this channel has and the passion these guys have I’ve been with this channel since pretty much day one and I’ve never been more proud of people i don’t personally know in my life, you’ll always get my support boys, bog deep letter eat baby!
Kyle Seipel thank you Kyle!! Very much appreciated.
Cleetus McFarland this made me unbelievably happy man! PS: pls run the windbreakers again I missed it
@@CleetusM Windbreakers plz!!!! (Do it for dale!)
HELL YEAH BROTHER!! BALD EAGLES FOREVER!!
Hell yeah brothers that was a great idea! I think if you took multiple pieces of plywood and glued them together to make a 4x4 it would be WAY stronger due to the alternating grain of the plywood. It might even handle a burnout. Maybe even wrap it in flex tape for extra stiffness. Bog deep and let 'er eat!
“Cut 2wice measure 1nce” Cleeter McSkeeter
CUT! I SAID CUUUUUUT!
The quality craftsmanship of Dr. Spray'em all is unmatched!
really you used one of the softest woods. try oak. that was damn funny.
Or hickory
Black walnut would be a cheap alternative.
We need everyone to like this so he can see it
Ironwood.
Leave it to the boys down south to be real clever
LOL! This popped up on my feed for some reason. I think it’s time to revisit this one! Do it for Dale!
Order in a stick of Ironwood for the next rip. It's stronger than some types of steel. Also put it on a lathe for at least a cursory balancing.
Yeah least a chance of no runoff and balance
That'd only cost about 10X the cost of a regular driveshaft, and weigh about 5-6X as much! Lol
This was great, and absolutely hilarious. As a General Contractor, I would really love to see this succeed. I'd love to see this using an Oak Dowel rather than a 4x4... I think it would give it one of the best chances for success.
Oak wrapped on duct tape it would give much better results, I'm pretty sure of it
Live oak or another wood that has more of a woven grain structure would probably be best, just a guess really.
From a wood boat carpentry background.
@@mikewhitman745 that interlocking grain for the win
Yup, oak is more than twice as strong. Also, shaping it on a lathe would give better fit and less runout. Now imagine putting it in a 60s/70s Japanese car with 45/60hp, and it might actually work...
B is for build: "here is our finished custom widebody, 1500hp, twin turbo, ls swapped, manual, lamborghini huracan unveiling at sema!"
Cletus: "Hold my bartle skeet while i build a driveshaft out of wood"
These science videos are a pretty decent competition for the Beyond the Press channel :)
"Churched up" is now my go to phrase 😂
Lowrider Bug joe dirt
Sees cleetus and the boys at home depot:
"Hey guys working on the new side of shop today?"
"Naw, we're building a wooden driveshaft for the mustang. No seriously, tune in next week."
Cleetus: we ran 7s and won stickshift at world cup
Also Cleetus: Wooden driveshaft!
That lil stick was sure shifting.... ergo StickShift
I wouldn't have it any other way
What a bunch of goobers! I LOVE YOU GUYS!
On a serious note, I've always wanted to try a large steel cable, all the tiny strands twisted together might have that perfect give for drag racing
I would really like to see that
It would be something like 50 times the weight of a driveshaft.
The cable would want to pull and curl up. It would likely pull the slip yoke out of the trans and cause lots of damage
Carbon fiber has a certain give to it but i seriously doubt it would withstand the sudden power of a launch from a dig
They should have mounted a go pro under there
All the "you need to focus on Leroy" comments. Do yall not realize he does this channel for fun not just drag racing. Have fun man lifes too short to be serious all the time.
Anyone that says that now havnt watched the last months worth of uploads . Leroy is back and faster than ever
Agree he’s back in the sevens no need to stress, love his science channel lol
I thought they just needed to get him ready for world cup now that it's over they have the time to do stuff like this.
This is something I would have expected Garage 54 to do, those Russians are nuts.
Awesome channel
Lol love that channel
Они думают что я написал что то умное..
@@VasilyBuilds Didn't expect you to reply here lol. Love the videos man.
@@1spunkymonkey2haha Thanks
When I saw the grain on the end of the post I knew it would fail. Use a post made from the center of the tree. Use a hardwood like oak. Turn it on a wood lathe. Or maybe use a metal post from the Freedom Factory chain link fence that needs to be replaced.
try hardwood "oak"
it has to be better than the soft wood used here
100% agree... Even a bamboo would have been better
@pietkrijger No way. Once you drill that wood, it's going to be even weaker. The duct tape idea would be better. (can't believe I even said that)
Oak would probably not be great for it, but certainly better than the fir that 4x4 is made of. Bamboo is an interesting thought. My money would still be on a wood like hickory or ash which is hard, dense and handles shock well.
You know some softwoods are harder than hardwoods. They are named based on their seeds. But generally yes hardwoods are stronger.
If it is too hard it will immediately snap, need some toughness to it also.
"Better than the stock v1 drive shaft" -Cooper 🤣 that was hilarious.
i was in tears on that one
Cleetus is literally just me and science class
James a thinking guy...
He had that in his head since you told him the idea.
Smart dude
As a lathe machinist, your idea of "no runout" made my skin crawl.
2 tenths of runout is easily acceptable in many applications. 2 thou of runout is sometimes, rarely, acceptable, but you can do better. 2 inches of runout is new territory...
Same lmaoo literally cringed for a sec but its all for fun
Kevin Vermeer LMAO
To me, "no runout", means less than .0002" speaking as an External Crankshaft polish grinder.
@@kypackerfan4-12-15 pfft, would never use one of your driveshafts. This isn't golf. The higher the number the better!
"McFarland Fabrication: Sporting Wood since 2019"
"Termites in your drive shaft, you're screwed." 😂🤣😂🤣 That's gold, Jerry... Gold!
Fun fact, two 2x4s glued and screwed together will be stronger than the 4x4. That would be a good test:)
Try different woods have somebody turn it on a lathe so it's perfict
Make it out of hardwood, like Oak, and turn it on a lathe before testing it.
Hickory would be better. Green hickorynis some of the bendiest, stringest wood in the country.
As a timber faller who used to work on the east coast, I HATED cutting hickory lol.
@@mikepetersons1319 cherry is way too brittle. Hard maple would be an excellent choice.
And coat it in epoxy
They will kill themselves. I've seen 2×4 bord that have went true the floor bord of car's.
use the car as a the lathe? Entertaining and dangeresque AF.
Do another one, while ideling in gear act as if it is on a lathe, smooth out the run out with a big grinder or something until balanced lol, then bog deep..
Lamination is the way to go strength-wise. Airplane fuselages,wings, and propellers have been built entirely from wood. Props in particular were used in mass production aircraft when steel was available.
Using a proper hard species of wood makes all the difference.
I know it's not in the spirit of the shtick (which was fun, I laughed really hard betweening the endless cringes. Complete click gold, aka the 3 stooges starring in "Let's build a manned rocket ship boys. They're throwing out a perfectly good cardboard refrigerator box down the street, if we hurry we can have it flight ready by dark.
But yeah, it's totally do-able, in real life.
Maybe this whole thing was just a prank on James now that I think about it. God I hope it was. Epic level of taking it seriously on his part. And you could tell he tried so hard not to be the guy who calls the whole thing out for what it was.
You wonderful idiots continue to make me laugh and cry...laughing.
You're living the dream!
What I wouldn't give to be making driveshafts for cars using my portable band saw to cut my already good driveshaft recklessly into pieces so I could throw some early growth pine into the freshly minted void (created in total by yours truly while simultaneously keeping my so called "helpers" from screwing the whole hole up by calling it a section, or some such other nonsense when anyone who has seen it without exception reports having witnessed a true void, AKA a complete absence of anything, including any somethings).rest my case, bald eagles.
Aside from having to explain my position on that whole void thing, I have always dreamed of doin' it with nails, when the situation clearly calls for steel and welding rod. Damnit James.
Do a ten minute Google search on lamination processes, daydream about plywood for a while, and then go buy the right materials you need, find a friend who has a proper lathe, use a chop saw with metal cut-off wheel (blade) so you get a proper perpendicular cut. Do the same with your piece of freshly laminated and yup, turned wood. Make a line around the circumference of your piece exactly 12" from each end. You will have turned them down to a microscopically tapered diameter that exactly matches the inner diameter of the metal ends where they's round. Now just drive the wood into the metal so that the line you drew on the wood corresponds perfectly with the leading edge of the metal. Adjust as needed until above is achieved.
No glue. Bore a hole through the metal and wood assembly 6" from where wood enters each metal section, measuring away from center, duh toward the outside man. Drop a stout bolt straight down through those 3 aligned holes you just made using your drill press , secure with washer and nut on opposing side where bolt exits, using enough torque to break a standard nipple on a Craftsman 3/8" extension.
The last part should be done by James, using his own dang tools for once now. He can borrow the 4 foot breaker bar for the yielding part of the torque process. Extract the sacrificial extension nipple from your socket during your own time James, you on the clock. Get to installing my new driveshaft on that mustang. I accidentally left it running last night behind the shop. Push it on in here, and shut it off that exhaust might be a little warm.
I think these drinks do have alcohol in them
Note-
"That'll work, whatever dude, this is just science." -Cleetus McFarland, November 2019
When father timing is away, the boys will play!
Use some old growth oak or cherry wood that is very dense and hard.
At 2:15 James went from flaming shirt pocket to nice and clean new shirt to burnt shirt pocket 🤦🏻♂️ the ole switcheroo on us Cleet, lol
Cleetus risked his life for the content being that close to that drive shaft.
Guys: We need to get Leroy up to running 7's again. Cleetus: Get's make a wooden driveshaft. Why wasn't this on the idea/what to do white board!?
Leroy ran 7’s last weekend.
What he said.. ^ Leroy rans mid 7s last weekend
A 7.8 to be more precise. Apparently dude is not a true Cletus fan otherwise he would have known.
A 7.79 actually
@@andrubackos1861 you are right my man. He beat his personal best but lost that race. I stand corrected but, in my defense I said to be more precise and I didn't pretend like I knew exactly. I would have known had I sat there and thought about it for a minute. So Tanks -a- bungie
"We did NAIL IT, that's how its supPOST to be"
Viktor Samuylik nah man, its SCREWed
Lol what’s up Sam
Nah
And here’s me thinking you were going to turn it down on a lathe...
pressure treated wood is weaker and just cause glue says it works on metal doesn't mean well
they should lathe a stronger wood with 2 part epoxy for glue
@@ihatecrackhead With the special additive for metal bonding available from West Systems Epoxy
For sure. Thos could actually work if you took the time to engineer it properly.
A lathe? What, you think they’re made of money? 😜🤣
@@Nevir202 they could've turned it first thing after installing it =D
When I was in high school (I get it I’m old) we made an exhaust on my buddies 55 Chevy out of his sisters old swing set.
its fine just dont breath the paint fumes! lmao
@@greasysteve5671 it's okay cancer wasn't invented yet back then
@@thecma3 I took ur comment as sarcasm then it dawned on me...
I actually like the look of this car, would make a cool streeter with a decent power-train setup.
Have someone shave a 4x4 down in a lathe to just fit into your cut driveshaft that way it's better balance and bo stress from shaking
That's what I was thinking, wish I knew the Id I'd turn them down some maple, oak and elm blanks
@@brianr8581 they could also stabilize the wood with a vacuum chamber if someone has one big enough. it would make the wood less prone to splintering.
That’s too good for them. They should just shave it down while it’s mounted under the car.
Three things.
1. Maybe try a length of wood that had already been rounded in a lathe. That will go s long way to sorting the run out / centering issue and leaving the strength as something to look at.
2. The wood you used looked like it had some large void in it that had filled with sap, this probably isn't going to help much
3..try a denser wood than pine, maybe spruce or oak.
I just saw the notification and read the title and I legit just said "oh dear god" 😂😂😂
Idk if you know of whistlin diesel or not but I thought it was one of his shenanigans 😂😂
Literally clicked the video the second the notification came up and everyone’s already commented lol.
If you’re not first you’re last
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@@biguprochester god dammit ricky bobby i was high when i said that!
@@Cjbarker2 idk man like i said, i clicked the notification when it popped up
When I saw the thumbnail I thought “it wooden work”, and after seeing the how well they glued and bolted it to the metal ends I thought “maybe it wood work”, but after testing it out on the road it steel wooden work! 😆😆😆
Was gonna use that pun ffs...
How long did you work on this i wood really like to know?
Andrew Osborne you just do that off the top of your head XDXDXDXDXD
I sorry, I thought someone already said something but I looked at the comments some of the way down and no one said it.😆
Clovenhalo079 well you see there’s dad jokes which I have been for a long time now, and of late I was upgraded to grandfather status so I had to go to the next level in dad jokes lol 😅
try wood driveshaft but find someone with a lathe to get rid of as much run out and then you may have more success