1-Piece Aluminum Driveshaft + Bluetooth 4WD! | #FTreeKitty [EP13]

all right guys uh next video on the f350 what it hasn't even been a month since the last video that's because a lot of this stuff is overlapping each other a lot of delays with everything going on in the world right now um but it's all coming close to an end we want to save the videos until there's enough meat in there so you guys can actually enjoy it and uh finish uh one of the segments that we do in the video in this one we'll be finishing up the exhaust the drive shaft i'm looking into the transmission cooler seeing what the options are for that finishing up the cradle underneath the engine making room for the oil filter and doing all the prep work in order for us to start this thing enough if you happen let's get into it here we go [Music] [Music] i don't want the engine to sit any lower but we'll see where it is up against the cab holy crap this is actually gonna work who knows maybe these swaps will be the next thing and i should patent this we're gonna put the engine back in place get the exhaust figured out get the drive shaft figured out definitely not using bed liner underneath the truck but i'm going to take all the other ideas and just mash them together okay so first thing is this filter it hits what's left of the cross member so we'll have to notch that basically i just need to make uh make this housing fit around the filter so i can actually spin it off so all i'm gonna do is mark it where the filter is gonna go i will go right out to the side i went to vnr got a piece of exhaust stainless exhaust that's big enough to go around the filter and uh we'll be golden here we go [Music] will i never learn [Music] there she is nicely curled around front mount there and since i just finished welding i can't leave for a half hour might as well just put the engine back in place here we go should have room to take that oil filter on and off now i really hope so i didn't really test fit it i just put it in here we go okay for all the money can i get an oil filter [Music] ah hot damn love it when a plan comes together it's weird there for like half a second oh that's fantastic when we dropped our engine off at scott's it had the front sump pickup we needed rear mount to get away from that cradle so picking off a brand new gasket never even had a chance to leak so i'll have a moment of silence [Music] i need to make sure that this pickup was for a shallow pan and not a deep pan you can see the the bottom of the pan i can see the seeds are here that it's about uh an inch off the bottom so we're good there and always always always check your drain plug tighten it you'll be surprised how many engine jobs get done and then redone because the plug falls out 100 kilometers or 100 miles down the road [Music] okay oil pan's on pickup tube is on torque to 28 foot pounds we put the engine back in but this will not be the last time this engine is out um we will paint everything afterwards now a couple things um this is an area that i lack in should i box the frame it's kind of a tree tree in the wind type of thing it's to flex a little bit i'm wondering about boxing it into the rear transmission or to the transmission mount and then at least the front springs the steering and everything will be nice and solid with the cab on it and then a little bit of flex allowed behind the cab afterwards if you've got a truck like this and you've done even a cummins swap or something or you've had some experience where you know it was the wrong thing where you didn't box it in and it did crack let me know for now we're going to fire it up as it is and weld all of the supports for the step bars in place then at least i can paint the backside after i burn through everything and then we can box it in afterwards now since it is a ford uh we can't remove the oil pan unless we pull the engine and we can't pull the engine unless we pull the cab so i'm going to keep that in mind as i build it uh that the wiring in that other than the ac is going to be made so that it's got plugs on the firewall so we can just unplug it and plug it in if we have to pull the cab off um it's just easier it's too tight of a fit to even dream about being able to swing this in or out that being said we're gonna put the engine back in place get the exhaust figured out get the drive shaft figured out and then uh probably next video we'll start it for the first time here we go look at this nice shiny new tank be a shame if somebody drilled a hole all right finally got my fuel tank this is months i'm gonna put the fast you can do this on the top with the hose sticking down but i'm gonna put it in the bottom you're gonna plug the return line and then i'm going to keep this uh sending unit mainly to the fuel gauge and then i've got two hoses left so um because the fast pulls quite a bit of fuel we won't be able to use the switch to go between the two tanks so more than likely i'm going to put the return into one from the fast uh dumping back into here and then it'll leak out take the screen off obviously clean all the fuel out and then the other one i'm going to do from the pump from the back tank so when we're low we just push a button and pump the fuel into the front now i might put a limit switch on there that it won't work if uh this tank is full because we don't want to pump too much in there that it starts pumping it out we do need to have a pickup that uh has some sort of canister over top because as we're driving all the fuel is going to slosh towards the front we don't want to pick up air it'll start spitting and sputtering so we want to have a reserve in here so as we slow down the fuel will slosh to the front and then it will come back again and fill my little tank again so um we'll disassemble this take the pump out of it and whatever else we need and make that just a return we don't want the return just dumping into the tank uh because that aerates the fuel quite a bit so we want to put that nice and down low again and we don't want it close to the pickup because we don't want the hot fuel to be picked up again we got a tank we got a piece of steel with a hole drilled in it that this will go on the bottom then that will get attached to a nice piece of stainless from lyles that will cut the circle out around it get vents to weld that and then drill a four inch hole in the bottom of the tank have that sticking up and then drill a bunch of small holes here so the fuel can fill up this will be in the bottom of the tank we got a hole there allow some fuel in and down that hole into the reservoir nipples up a hair so any dirt crap major stuff falls in the bottom and we'll weld that into the bottom of the tank just so that the holes are above the bottom of the tank and then uh we'll be golden here we go is the uh bench a little too high in there for this short [Music] hey all right i want to thank you guys for all the helpful info when we're talking about silverado and how to protect it um definitely not using bed liner underneath the truck um now i know there's a pile of different uh proven uh formulas out there coat the entire freaking thing in oil and it's not gonna rust do that all the time i hate doing that because it's gross i hate working on it um and then also the wax works good slippery as can be and as soon as you got an oil leak or something you got to work on it is a pain but i'm going to take all the other ideas and just mash them together um i really like that undercoating from rust-oleum it's it's pretty it's pretty durable i couldn't scratch it with a screwdriver i'm marking it but i'm not breaking through so what we're actually gonna do is paint everything frame inside and out and then put the under coating on there um it does the properties to uh fight off the rust and then we're gonna take fluid film and all the corners that we can't get at inside the rockers inside the doors inside the tailgate inside those nasty wheel wells and spray all that so that it kind of creeps everywhere on top of that yet that's probably the best thing that we can do um we'll keep up on that fluid because that is a constant maintenance thing yearly but at least i can spray it where i can't get at it and i don't i'm not gonna spray it where i'm gonna work it's gonna be really hard finding oil leaks if everything's kicked in oil on purpose so now i'm gonna scuff this up you know just because it's shiny and glossy and then we'll spray some under oiling on the bottom of the tanks we'll mount the tanks and then while it's in the truck i can uh i can just spray the top of them [Music] you want to keep the fast nice and close to the tank it's less work for it to pull the fuel from the tank better and a nice hole perfectly right there for us away from the e-brake cable and pretty much if you don't see the filter sticking out from under the box you're doing it wrong [Music] [Music] [Music] people were making fun of us taking civics to the scrap pairs we started taking outies this is why i can't have nice things a good haul at vnr we got a little tank um in case maybe that's the right size if not we got this nice little bit bigger tank um and there was a cat there i needed this flange on the uh on the exhaust so i don't know if lyles can make that flange or not but anyway we can start with this one at least give them something to bend and um vnr is great for hoses too yet so we got all the transmission cooler lines we got fittings for days it's a good day let's get back at it it's nice going there and like the hottest part of the day go for a little drive and a nice car with air conditioning and then when it cools down a little bit back in the shot i'm still sweating like a pig this is the cooler i think that this is a temperature control so your your coolant comes in and out through here i shouldn't have cut this one but i did we'll run a new line to there um and then uh basically just give it power and power it in and then that would turn the fan on but the fan is toast so the frame i think is still good so we can clean that up and splash and paint down that um and then we'll mount that and then we'll look for another fan so after thinking about it i'm just going to use flex-a-lite's sensor in there that will turn the pan on when it gets hot and we bought this thing way back for the audi actually and didn't end up using it from grassroots and that is pretty well a perfect fit we'll customize that a little bit and there we go [Music] all right so lots of progress uh thank you all the comments on the last video about using a bronco tank in the back i know they do fit i still like the look of trucks with toolboxes in the back and because we'll be taking the audi there's a there's a guy that builds custom tanks so we'll probably do a tank that's a toolbox has diesel and race fuel for the audi in it because we're using the wiring in the gauges from the f550 we don't uh we won't be able to tell the fuel level on that one but we're actually thinking we might be able to make a holley work too and if that's the case then we should be able to read both fuel tanks right now i'm not too worried about it um when this tank's empty we pump that tank into this one and then that's it paint's drying on the transmission cooler we're going to mount that right here and i think the other air tank we're going to mount right here it's a nice cute little short one that's just enough volume to uh to keep us happy hopefully it doesn't run too much that it blows off all the time if that's the case we might have to put another tank somewhere else but we'll worry about that later i'm gonna run the air lines we're basically gonna put everything in place um and then pull it back off again and paint everything we've got a lot of welding to do on the uh brackets for the transmission cooler and then the exhaust uh i think we can incorporate most of the old hangers but we got a nice new exhaust all the piping that we need for a do-it-yourself kit from lyles now lots of comments about lifting the truck and and we can lift the truck as to the moon we can lift the truck up that's not really going to change anything there might be a half inch there but i'd have to lift the cab like four inches um we're not building the sema truck and i'd like my girls to be able to climb into the truck so that being said because we are lifting it about an inch uh we're gonna take some air cylinders from princess auto uh working off of our air tank and build hideaway um steps for this i don't like the electric ones they uh they're really expensive and i think we'll have some fun building our own stuff we've got vents fabricating bunch of stuff we got all the steel and aluminum that we need from princess auto i think we just got some generic amazon steps that if i screw up it's not going to be that big of a deal nice thing is i can install the fan in the housing mount the housing and uh all right there we go not put the actual cooler in until we're ready to do that so we don't risk damaging that tight i'm going to trim this yet i have to trim this otherwise my ride won't slide in this is a little afterthought but um now this will just be the mock-up i think if i build a cage or build a hoop around the drive shaft to stick this right here i don't know if i like that we might be able to stack a power steering cooler on the transmission cooler on top of each other um this one was just kind of a freebie even though now i've spent an hour painting it and cleaning it up oh well at least we got another one all right we're on our way to niagara drive line in st catharines i've done all my drive shafts uh all my custom ones always really happy with them uh and see what we can do with the f350 now we can't do a one-piece steel one we can do a one-piece aluminum the steel ones i think 68 is about as long as that you can go but you can go almost i can go around 80 with an aluminum drive shaft so um yeah hopefully that works out we got larry and randy there uh they're also doing the gto drive shaft at the same time i had a little vibration there so we'll see what's up here we go the maximum i can run it steel is 68 inches okay my tubing only comes with 72 inch lengths we needed 76 inches of tubing besides that you're not supposed to run a steel shaft beyond what your limits are okay that said we built them longer ah no warranty whatsoever and this is for like tractor pullers or guys that are strictly bogging them yeah yeah weird i've got 80 000 kilometers on my tractor pole and i'm disappointed at let go well it's always cheaper to do a one-piece as opposed to a two-piece uh two-piece shaft just regardless of what you're putting in you're looking at a thousand dollars yeah yeah okay and you still got to put in a cross member like a 60 40 split 30 70 is okay as well like with the punch out okay but your cross member and where a lot of guys make a mistake just stick in a piece of angle iron big plexus yeah you're going to go through hanger bearings like crazy wrong cross members are not a heavy enough crosstalk then you're going to have issues all the way along okay and it's all going to come back to who did the ride shot and we didn't see the truck so i have no idea what you get you experimented with aluminum aluminum usually we just go longer yes we're just not comfortable of welding it up okay and that works out perfect because i've got an awesome aluminum welder that i trust 100 so what we need is this is uh it comes as a kit and this u-joint is a 1410 for the you're gonna have to put a conversion joint in here the back one's going to be what you wanted was 1350. okay okay the front because in your training what you gave me is 14 10 yeah you have to put a conversion joint in there i cannot get you a tubule that tube 14 10 that would be ideal because as soon as you're dealing with conversion joints the cost of it all right thanks okay [Music] all those princess auto stands working out for you okay so we weren't able to get the flange that we wanted for the exhaust so what i did was i took a v-band flange and just cut a taper on it the same angle as the turbo and then i had to turn this down just like maybe 16 of an inch to match the width of the turbo after that it's basically just a do-it-yourself kit from lyle's that would probably be your only issue if you were going to do something yourself the kits are awesome the resonator quiets it down just enough your four inch exhaust so it doesn't become too annoying but sounds beefy enough and then these pre-bent pieces one fits inside the other is just goes up and over your axle and does a dump behind the tire so you can get all that online and ship it right to you and uh it's up to you how you do your hangers uh incorporated the stock ones in the back here i'm gonna bend them over here and then uh these ones it's just one hanger with a couple of washers welded to hold it in place but it'll be a pain to remove this so even though i want it in here so i know where i'm welding and what um we'll remove the actual exhaust when we paint everything and then we'll put everything back on again as it goes but should be able to fire it up nicely now and have it sounding the way it should there we go off the exhaust and onto the drive shaft yeah this is my shop it is new stuff i know you can't believe it i can grab the software transport truck and modify it nice and pretty yeah [Music] nice okay so we've got the one ear welded we've got the blade squared up to the fence and now nothing left to do but if i cut too much off that's it we're going two piece two piece aluminum [Music] nice and tight all right back took the drive shaft to uh international stretcher because i have this fancy tool to line up the ears and the owner goes if you guys are half as smart as you think you are you just put a bar through it lay it on a couple blocks on a square table and when the ears are laying on the bar they're square mark it tap it in done get out of my shop [Music] okay we got our u-joints in ready to go [Music] if you want to see how excited i am about putting a drive shaft in it's not even cold yet from uh vince welding they're still toasty there still still warm here all right we have a drive shaft and that little bit when we like it will never go lower than that um as the axle comes up and goes in we got a good that much on the spline so love it we're gonna balance on monday and we are good to go so balanced really nice it was only half an ounce out not even so they aim for a quarter it was like less than that so we just one weight there and they look big but they're not because um aluminum doesn't weigh anyway so one on each end that's awesome throw that back in again and drive shaft is ready here we go okay so we got our rear drive shaft in but he didn't have the parts for the front drive shaft so we've got a bluetooth front drive shot but he promises me it'll be this week in the meantime we've built these drive shafts to match these axles because uh i know that we should get into super duty axles and whatnot um i'm taking this build one thing at a time we can change those axles whenever we want more than likely we will because the back are just drum brakes but they work for now and the tire spacing and everything's all proper i know it's going to be able to go down the road we can go out and buy super duty axles but i know tuesday or vnr is going to run across some eventually so we'll grab them then but for now we're going to be sticking with the 93 axles and taking care of getting it running moving and doing a proof of concept before we turn this thing into a bigger project than it already is thanks for watching guys next episode we're going to fire it up we're going to stick around for that first start on this one is going to be pretty special i think this is the first other than the audi this is the first complete rebuild we did on our own project so um pretty pretty excited uh the cummins isn't far behind and we got lots of good stuff coming up all over the place thanks for watching guys here we go

Channel: DEBOSS GARAGE

Views: 124,478

Rating: 4.9757042 out of 5

Keywords: cat 3126 swap, cat 3126 performance upgrades, cat 3126 rebuild, cat 3126 engine, cat 3126 heui pump replacement, cat 3126 bulletproof, cat engine bulletproof, cat engine swap, cat engine build, cat engine in ford, cat engine in truck, cat engine overhaul, cat 3126 in pickup, cat 3126 fuel pump, cat swapped pickup, cat swapped ford, cat swapped f350, cat swapped truck, cat swap into f 350, f350 cat 3126, f350 caterpillar swap, f350 cat swap, 1 piece driveshaft

Id: aXDACeATAgM

Length: 26min 45sec (1605 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 30 2021