Narrowing a rear end ***HOW TO*** PT.1

narrowing the rear end in today's video we're going to show you guys how to narrow a reroute so we're going to start with getting all the brakes off this rear end and then on the dana 44 how they hold the axle traps in is actually our four bolted on the back and then you can slide hammer the axle shafts out just like that pulling it out with a nice slide hammer so we got this dana 44 mostly disassembled we got the axle shafts out of it which we'll have to cut down and narrow those as well as long as we're narrowing the rear end too or you can set them out to get custom length axle shafts we're gonna do it all in house because why not and so we got the rear end we don't really need to chop these brackets and stuff off because uh we're cutting so much out of this we're just gonna chop it off right there and then we're gonna pull our 13 inches out of the axle shaft and then we'll prep these and get it fully welded together the first thing we're going to do is actually take our angle grinder and make a line just all the way down this axle tubing so when we put it back together everything's back to be in a line for the brake calipers and everything just so this thing's not all caddy wompy when we weld it back together so on both sides we'll take our angle grinder and go down the center make a good line on there and then we'll start marking it out start chopping this axle housing so instead of using an angle grinder market we ended up just spray painting it because it was easier to get it in there and then we took our angle grinder and a four and a half inch cut off disc and just start chopping it off so now that we got our ends chopped off we're going to mark out 13 inches from where we cut it at the end of the axle tube and we'll do that on the other side as well so we got our 13 inches marked out and we're going to chop the tube so now we're going to take some masking tape and wrap it around the tube so we have a nice straight cut when we cut it with our angle grinder uh we did actually use the little bevel joint on the rear end to make sure it was straight uh the other thing too is guys uh we're gonna have to cut those axle shafts and install them before we weld this back together due to the fact that we don't really have that much axle shaft on our nub that we cut off of the axle usually use a big piece of angle iron going here weld it to the tubes and set this and then it makes it pretty straight but we don't have enough tube for that and this bevel's out so we're gonna actually have to cut and weld our axle traps back together and install it before we weld these axles together but let's get this two cut and marked out [Music] just look how cute it is i don't think i've ever seen a rear on this narrow before how narrow this guy is so what we're gonna do next is prep these guys for welding you can see our nice little paint line how we can line that up again we need to actually bevel these so we get good penetration because that's probably three of an inch thick of steel we're also going to tig weld this all together but that's how literally wide this rear end is going to go maybe axle shaft so maybe another inch and a half out but you can see how tiny this guy is it should work out great we need to get these axles cut down for alignment purposes because eric kind of screwed up on that part but we will get it nice and straight it will be okay so here's our stock axle shaft and then here's our new stubby axle shaft look at that thing everything's tiny over here runs tiny it's gonna be awesome yeah so we took 13 inches out exactly out of the axle shaft so now we got some good round stock right there that can go anywhere we want to go but now we need to get these axle shafts welded together so the first thing we're gonna do is bevel these axle shafts so we'll actually bevel them right here so when we bottom up and weld them we got a good place to penetrate them axle shafts are beveled as you guys can see uh we got one blasted together and it is extremely straight we've checked it with our precision straight edge and it's probably within two thousandths of an inch straightness-wise so all we've been using is this piece of angle iron clamp to each side of it and then we're going to start blasting it together so we're going to show you guys exactly how we're doing it on this axle shaft right here so we can make from this dual piece axle shaft dual one the beast so yeah we uh heated the crap out of this we are maxing out my welder at 200 amps we are blasting these together and making sure they're straight so i'm set your tripod and show you guys how to weld them up [Music] all right she's clamped now we got to use the magical trick of welding stuff back together at like full maxed out 220 30 amp circuit handle of 200 amps of welding awesomeness so just clamp and we're going to get blasting together [Music] so pekka welded so now we're gonna unclamp this flip it around and then we're gonna do the same thing on the other side and then we'll check the straightness of our actually we're gonna let cool for a little bit with this angle just kidding that was a joke that was all intended let's see how strength she is there is a taper part right here to watch out for [Music] so we got both of our axle shafts fully welded together as you guys saw you can see we laid in hot weld right into it uh this carrier is offset too i didn't even know this until i cut them but you can see the axle shaft lengths this one's shorter than this one well that's because it's an offset pinion uh it should be square hopefully it's square knock on wood but if you stand this guy up you can see that right there's the middle and the pinion's not very centered so that's why we got offset this is longer than this side so the short shaft goes on this side long shaft goes on this side you can see we beveled our weld we are ready to weld these outer pieces on we're gonna have to say that for the next video guys so make sure you go down below and hit that subscribe button because you guys are not gonna want to miss this stubby little rear end that we narrowed to go into the lawnmower chassis itself so we go do sweet burnouts and everything else so guys thank you for watching as always keep it boosted and we'll see you in the next one

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Id: detapBy_vLs

Length: 6min 39sec (399 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 23 2022