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Old 09-05-2010, 01:12 PM   #1
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s-10 swap driveshaft help please

did the frame swap looks like i need a gm driveshaft about 58",i know gm made one, does anyone know of any gm car or truck that has one???
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Old 09-06-2010, 04:19 AM   #2
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Re: s-10 swap driveshaft help please

Head for your friendly local salvage yard with a tape measure. That's how I find mine. It doesn't even need to be a GM shaft as long as it has the right size U-joints.

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Old 09-06-2010, 09:45 AM   #3
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Re: s-10 swap driveshaft help please

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Head for your friendly local salvage yard with a tape measure. That's how I find mine. It doesn't even need to be a GM shaft as long as it has the right size U-joints.

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did that most of the cars and trucks were sitting on the grown or didn't have a drive shaft at all....
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Old 09-06-2010, 11:54 AM   #4
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Re: s-10 swap driveshaft help please

Ok, your salvage yard is different from the one I usually use. Mine has the shafts pulled out and stored separately. They are in kind of a jumble, but if you have enough patience you can go through them and measure them all.

Are there any other yards you can go to? If not, second choice would be to get a shaft which is too long and have it shortened. This should be about a $50 job if you don't let the shop talk you into balancing, new joints, etc.

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Old 09-06-2010, 01:20 PM   #5
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Re: s-10 swap driveshaft help please

hoping for info of a gm car or truck that has a drivreshaft around 58" long, nothing else..
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