SO im buying a 93 W250 that is currently a longbox frame with a clean clubcab and the guy im buying it from is keeping the utility box and im gunna cut the frame and short it up because i like the way a club cab shortbox looks more than a clubcab longbox just my opinion. but my question is about the driveshaft, is it going to be more price efficient to use the original driveshaft and take it to a shop and have it shortened and balanced or would i be better off buying a dirveshaft out of a 1st gen clubcab shortbox ??

 

i dont believe they made a clubcab shortbed 1st gen

 

It normaly runs $200-250 to get a stock shaft shortened and reballanced if they can reuse the yoke. Of course its been years since I've done that so it may be more.

 

yeah i think ill just get the original shortened and balanced

 

it is your only option. Had one done a couple of months ago: $300 but they supplied a new yoke

 

well thats a price i can live with

 

Wow, I never paid that much when I had my work done on the driveshaft for my ramcharger and my buddies ramcharger. Guess stuff is more expensive in Houston though.

 

I was paying $200-$300 for a drive shaft shorten and balance. Then my brother put me onto a farming machine shop, they do the all the fab work for farmers and such, so they also do drive shafts. I had the 2 piece drive shaft in my crewcab, shorted and rebalanced for $150!!

So maybe look into a farming machine shop locally and see if they can do the work for a few bucks less...

 

I paid $75 to shorten my shaft for my Suburban. the guy asked what it came out of. I told him a 90 D250. His eyes got big and he said "This was going to be $150 because of all the weight Dodge like putting on to "balance" it."

There was only a single 2oz piece on the longer shaft.

 

Clean Short beds are almost impossible to fine around here
Workable beds are getting tough to find
Rotted out beds are even a bit tough.

Just a thought look around for beds before you cut.