How To Perfectly Set Up Your Drive Shaft Angles!

hey what is going on guys welcome back to the channel today we are going to talk about drivelines we're going to make just a short little video on how to set up drivelines how to set up your angles and what you need to do with certain types of drivelines because there is a few different styles of drivelines out there so this truck is the easiest to set up because it is a single shaft with a single U joint on either side that is the easiest to set up there's two piece shafts with single joints there's two piece shafts with double carton joints and they all set up a little bit different so I'll throw up a few images on the screen how you set up a single shaft like this what's on the Hilux a single shaft with a single joint on each end you basically want the axle and the transmission horizontal obviously it won't need to be higher or lower but you want the U-joint angles to be the same on the transmission and on the axle so basically the output of the transmission and the axle are on the same plane on the same Horizon horizontal with each other so that is the easiest way to set up this truck's going to to be super super simple especially because I did the three link on it and all the arms are adjustable so we'll just adjust the axle to match the transmission and we'll be done now one thing I want to go over real quick is you can run the Driveline straight if if they do line up perfectly straight you can run it like that but it's not very good on your U-joints because you don't get the U-joint moving at all basically the U-joint won't spin or won't rotate it won't move the grease around the joint and they can actually dry out and they don't last as long that way you do get less vibration but the U-joints aren't going to last as long typically you want like at least two degrees of actual angle on the U-joint just so that U-joint like I said is moving is moving the grease around and it's lubricating the whole joint over time it won't dry out now the next type of shaft is a two-piece shaft with a single U-joint at each joint so basically it's it follows the same rules as this single shaft whereas the top shaft usually is straight usually maybe it has one or two two degrees just to keep the U-joints moving like I said but the top shaft is usually fairly straight or parallel with the ground and then the second shaft going down to the axle you want the axle at the same plane as that front top shaft so that's how you set up that now when you have a double card and joint on the rear of a two-piece shaft you usually want to pitch up the axle to be in line with the drive shaft so the drive shaft coming here you want the axle basically at close to zero maybe one or two degrees just to keep the U joint moving like I said but you want that lined up and pointed up to the carton joint because the Cardon joint is basically two joints in one so basically the double carbon joint cancels itself out that's what you kind of want you want to cancel each joint out so if you have five degrees on one joint you want five degrees on the other joint so you have zero degrees they cancel each other out so when the double carton joint cancels itself out you don't want to add a bunch of angle on another third joint because you will get some vibration out of that so double card and Joint you point the pinion up at the card and Joint now with all that being said let's get the truck up in the air and set up this drive shaft all right trucks in the air what I like to use is just this little digital angle finder here so we come under and measure the output of the what you can do is measure on this cap you just get that horizontal and you can measure that we are I don't know if you can see that 5.4 degrees and then we'll come measure the drive shaft and looks like we are actually right about the same 5.3 5.4 so that joint right now has no angle on it come back here to the axle and you can measure right on the side you can see there's a little flat spot in the flange on the axle here so we are if you guys can see that right about a degree 0.9 1.0 so what we basically want to do is just adjust this axle to match this angle on the output of the right here so we're going to shoot for 5.3 5.4 degrees on the axle that'll put the axle and the the transmission at the same plane and we'll have the same working U-joint angle at the front and the back now if you look at my upper link arm here it's a big triangled arm so what we're gonna have to do is just pull this upper bolt out off the top of the axle and get that heim joint out get that jam nut loosened up we'll have to lengthen this upper joint here to push the top of the axle back pull the pinion up so that we can match the transmission foreign [Music] a little more accurate way you can do this this top is magnetic or I guess the bottom but you can flip it over and use a socket and then come up here on the actual U-joint cap right there we can measure it this way so we're right about 3.8 on the back and you can see it changes because we're about three we were anyway last time I checked it 3.8 if you guys can see that so we are perfect right now 3.8 and 3.8 so go ahead tighten up all the bolts in the back and we should be golden Drive Line any of you have never done it before and you dive in start doing your research it seems very complicated on exactly how to do it so I hope that clears it up for you guys it's really not that complicated you just got to figure out what type of drive shaft you have and then apply these rules these angles to your drive shaft and you shouldn't have to deal with a drive shaft of vibrations and wearing out U-joints way too fast well I hope you guys enjoyed the video next video we got to get this thing running so hopefully hopefully anyway fingers crossed everything goes as planned we can get this thing fired up and see how this puppy runs tune in some carbs and like I said I'm very very excited to get this thing fired up we'll hope you guys enjoyed the 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Channel: Austin Niemela

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Id: ENMop1hpe9c

Length: 7min 1sec (421 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 09 2022