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Message: [QUOTE="Dirtclod, post: 1482431, member: 20061"] So I got new stickers for my truck and she's riding like new again. However the mechanic said that 3 of my wheels were not true. He did get them balanced out just a little more weight than he likes. Couple days later I got to noticing a slight vibration when coasting off the throttle which felt just like a unjoint bad. Looked at them and seemed ok. I drove 280 miles to my beach house last week and after I got here it got really bad and finally the rear ujoints at the rear end came out. I think the culprit was I got the wrong size ujoints that was a tad too small. I replaced it with a spicer ujoint and replaced the opposite end with one the same size. Parts guy at ford said they're the same u joint. It boogered up just a tad much and I can't get the snap ring to lock in the groove and I'm thinking its the two holes where the ujoint installs are not lined up exactly and are spread out just ever so slightly. There's a junkyard 45 min away that I've dealt with before said he had several so just bring mine to match up. Not any match. He will sell me a drive shaft for a long bed cc for 40$. I've welded for 26 years and fabbed a lot of different things up but never a drive shaft. Now there's no doubt I can put it together perfectly lined up"IF"!!! I have the right machine to weld it. I've never cut one of these so I don't know the thickness. I have access to a miller thunderbolt stick welder and if it's at least 3/16" thick I can fit it and burn out with a 3/32 and Smooth it down and ride on. Does anyone know the the thickness of these driveshafts? [/QUOTE]

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