This is what I did, I got a Tom Woods - it came in, I swapped it out in something like 45 minutes. Then I took the stock one to a driveline shop and had it rebuilt and balanced and now have a spare to use if and when I have to rebuild Toms.

 

A spare drive shaft is never a bad thing to have, especially if you do any off roading. When I get around to upgrading my axle and drive shaft I plan to keep the originals as trail side emergency fix parts.

 

thanks.. thats more then likely what ill end up doing, or ill end up selling the old one. kno i just need to find a way to get it by the wife hmmm....

 

The main issue with the stock front propshafts on the DII is that the DC joint can't be lubed, the cats bake the grease and then the u-joints fail.
If you rebuild it with u-joints that have grease fittings you should be fine provided you lube it every oil change (u-joints should be lubed every 5,000 miles with normal use, but I find it easier to remember it as part of the oil change). And that means really lube it, not "Yeah, I'll get to that next week". Good intentions don't count. And you should see new grease come out from around all 4 seals on each u-joint.
If you don't lube them properly (often enough and with the correct amount of grease) you're better off with sealed u-joints, they'll last longer.

 

E-mail me your e-mail address and I'll send it out to you.

 

Talked to a guy in the gun shop one day and he said that he and his wife had a rule that once something is in the house it got to stay. So he was buying another gun while she was having her hair done. Sounded like a good rule to me.

My oil change interval is 5000 miles so it makes it really easy to remember to grease the u-joints every 5000 miles.

 

ahahah i have a gun addiction too so i think ive used that one up

 

There are advantages to being single. Only person I have to justify buying more guns to is me. Even at that it took me quite a while to justify my AR15.

 

theres a nice new sako trg-42 .338 lapua in my closet right now