bradshaw106

Im trying to investigate my steering shaft on my truck. it does not look like the type in the sticky.. it looks very similar to a borgeson type with two universals.
I would think this might be after-market but my old parts truck had the same type of shaft???
did dodge use a different style on the newer trucks??

Wettstein

no i dont think so. the PO most likly changed them out after they started to go bad. well thats what i did anyway

torquefan

No, the first gen trucks all started out using the shaft with the troublesome pot-joint coupler in it. I think there ended up being several companies that built an upgraded shaft for those trucks. I know I have installed several of them after sending them out to a local company who would chop off the OEM coupler and weld in a splined slip-joint with a u-joint.

That type of shaft disappeared after 93, as the second gens all used a rag-style joint.

cougar

The only thing I found is lengths very. The one for my 83 was not interchangeable with my 91.

dzl_damon

Ya, I think there were many aftermarket options back then. My buddies W150 gas job has one, and that parts truck you took the 5 speed out of had one too. Didn't look exactly like my Borgeson, but very similar.

bradshaw106

I hauled off my steering box today to find my fancy shaft has a significant amount of play in the lower universal and in the slip joint....
looks like my shaft meeds some attention. I see borgeson offers two shafts for our trucks one with two universal and one with only one universal.... anyone have any experience with the shaft with two uni's??

Im thinking that is what i will need... if i remove my current shaft i will just have a splined shaft up top no rag joint...

BearKiller

Dodge did indeed use two separate types of steering shaft on these trucks, with no obvious rhyme or reason as to which truck got what shaft.

ALL of these original factory shafts have a rag-joint at the top and that cheapy plastic contraption at the bottom.

Where the two styles differ is that one style has the top portion of the rag-joint actually being a physical part of the upper steering-shaft and no way is that removable without hack-sawing it away and fabricating something else.

The other style has a roll-pin connection above the entire rag-joint and THAT style is the one that can use the TWO-JOINTED after-market shafts.


Borgeson makes a respectable shaft that I have used on several trucks.

Flaming River makes an even superior one; BUT, it can only be used on the removable rag-joint shafts.


http://www.flamingriver.com/index.ph...002/FR1857-DOS



They used to have a really neat action picture of this shaft; BUT, they "new and improved" their site and I can no longer find it.