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You need a piece of driveshaft tubing, here is a Dana-Spicer distributor locator. Distributor Locator Now i highly reccomend you use that locator to find a shop that can retube your driveshaft for you. I mean no disrespect, but the chances of you welding the yokes into the new tube and getting it straight enough to have it balanced are slim to none.
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Well as long as straightness is not an issue, just click the link and you should be able to find someplace halfway local that can sell you some tubing.
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99% of the driveshaft tubing found in medium duty and lighter applications is rolled and welded driveline tubing, not DOM. DOM for anything smaller than say 1710 series is more or less over kill. Your local international shop is probably overpriced on tubing because international dealers have access to spicer parts through international. A mom and pop driveline/machine shop that buys direct from spicer will probably have much friendlier pricing than any heavy truck dealer ship buying through an OEM. While im sure international is paying less than your average Dana-Spicer warehouse distributor, by the time they make money selling the parts to the dealer ship and the dealer ship makes money selling the stuff to you there is and extra set of hands in the cookie jar so the price becomes inflated. If you can tell me what size tube you bought, i can tell you what the local driveline shop here local to me would sell it for. I promise you its ALOT less than $4 per inch. $4 an inch sounds higher than even list price.
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99% of the driveshaft tubing found in medium duty and lighter applications is rolled and welded driveline tubing, not DOM. DOM for anything smaller than say 1710 series is more or less over kill. Your local international shop is probably overpriced on tubing because international dealers have access to spicer parts through international. A mom and pop driveline/machine shop that buys direct from spicer will probably have much friendlier pricing than any heavy truck dealer ship buying through an OEM. While im sure international is paying less than your average Dana-Spicer warehouse distributor, by the time they make money selling the parts to the dealer ship and the dealer ship makes money selling the stuff to you there is and extra set of hands in the cookie jar so the price becomes inflated. If you can tell me what size tube you bought, i can tell you what the local driveline shop here local to me would sell it for. I promise you its ALOT less than $4 per inch. $4 an inch sounds higher than even list price.
Listen to this fella, hes done plenty of my driveshafts in the shop for us. All true and balanced. Off road or not, you want it done right.
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