HOW TO: SHORTEN REAR DIFFERENTIAL | Loco Customs
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- Опубліковано 4 вер 2022
- Shortening rear axel on a 40's Chevy. This took less than an hour to do, hope this video was informative and helpful. Please leave your feed back in the comments, we would love to hear from you. As always, thanks for watching! Have a great Labors Day
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Great instructional video! Should mention when you rotate the tube make sure the previous tacks aren't on the contact points for the angle iron. Love the instructional videos. Wish I could hear the jokes a little better.
Thanks for the feedback! That's a good point, also will be adding more captions in future videos.
Running a big Rigid pipe cutter around the tube a few times gives a perfect score line to follow with a porta band. I picked up a 4” pipe cutter at the pawn shop for $75 years ago. It’s earned it’s keep a hundred times
Nice work, that's a huge C-clamp! That's one job I've never done, shorten an axle.
Thanks for the lesson.
So glad you enjoyed, thanks for the support
Another good video! Shows you don't "need" an expensive jig and expensive welding table to do good work.
Exactly, thanks for the comment!
I've done a few diff swaps but luckily I always found one the right width for the various cars I've had.
Awesome! Thanks for commenting
Great job and good description , explanation and demonstration , thanks, if you could do a follow up showing how you shorten the half shafts that would be great .
I'm guessing beard man has never received a chunk of cut off wheel to the face at 10,000 rpm?
Me neither and I work pretty much 6 days a week with 3" and 5" grinders for the last 30 years. No gard and rarely safety goggles and I never had a face shield. On the other hand a friend of mine has a beard now that he got half of a 5" wheel stuck in his lower jaw.
Thankfully it missed his eye.
If you have a spare 1/2"x 13 nut use can use it on the c-clamp that has lost it's foot.
Thank you! Thats very helpful
Like the videos so far would like to see something finished.
Keep watching we have a lot of projects and this channel is fairly new. We are trying to show everything we work on
How much should it cost to shortend a chevy rear just like u did
Hi. Good Video. Thanks. You could have cut a couple holes in the angle iron and welded the tacks on the other side as well and you would have it all tacked all at once.
Thank you!
Where do you get new axles for the diff an do you just buy them to size??? Always wondered that thanks for the video
Call Dutchman Axels, they will send you a build sheet for your axels. Thanks for the comment!
Subbed and liked! Great and informative video. What exact prep discs were you using there? One I can tell was a 7”? cutoff wheel.. and the other grinding wheels were which type and grit?
Thank you and thanks for subscribing! The grinding wheels were 45 and 80 grit
@@LocoCustomsGreat, you got it! Thank you. Harbor Freight supply, or from somewhere else?
Great video guys ! I've got a '38 Chevy coupe that need the same treatment. I believe on my '38 it's 57" 3/4 wide. Do you remember the overall width you guys went to on this unit ? Thanks !
Thank you David! 38' Chevy That's awesome! I'll check tomorrow and get back to you. Thanks again for the support on the video
What was the reason you did not sleeve the axle tubes, I would think it's structural and with airbag hopping or hydraulic hopping of the car or truck I would think it could crack.
The weld look really good but It doesn't matter to me because I wouldn't do it.
I sure wouldnt trust anyone butt welding the axle tube of a rear end.
Im with you on that one!!
@hitlow1985 in my point of view it should have been drilled out at the diff side where the factory welded it. And cut down, But if one is to butt weld an axle tube the outside should have all the mounts shaved off and sleeved from the outside as not to lose oil flow to the bearings and new mounts made to be welded to the sleeve. As if the sleeve is done in 2 pieces and throughly welded, and would make a great mounting point for either leafspring or a 4 link or even latterbars. As you could weld the sleeve full length .
I love the feedback and opinions! I agree with you guys on the sleeve, it could be a great mounting point. This is the way I did this one, and i'm fully confident in the welds. We do structural steel and get our welds x-rayed frequently. Definitely more than one way to skin a cat
@LocoCustoms glad to hear you x-rayed it., you know the dimples on each side of the diff, that's actually the main weld at the factory. There is another one on the opposite side of it as well, I found if you drill those out, the axle tube can be heated and removed, then you just cutdown the tube on that end. In the 1990's currie axle showed me how they did it. Back when they used to buy the axle housings at the salvage yards., now they just make the whole thing. But the principle still works on hotrodding.
@@LocoCustoms You guy got the right idea with with leveling it with angle iron and making the mark to line it up.
I went to school to learn how to do welding but it was auto body but when I learned how to weld on a frame I watch a bunch of videos and they explain why they cut the patch the way they did and I did my first frame repair.
I had very little exprience welding frame steel but have welding a bunch of times over a 20 year period.
I wouldnt doubt an exprienced welder but it's a matter of welding it to last a long time.
For example welding in a angled cut peice of 1/8" steel on a frame that crack at a weak point,rather than just welding the crack you can patch it so that spot is not gonna crack again.
Just like anything elese we are always learning and finding out what work best,the more info we can gather to better off our work will be.
save save, where is the project you bought from Welderup? shall we put msrcha? I'm in Brazil.
Just put out 2 new videos on the 1929 model a!
@@LocoCustoms irei assistir agora.
Is it safe to use e6013 electrodes as they are the only ones my country has 😂!
Yep, those will work!
Where you guys located?
Las Vegas and Pahrump, Nv
What type of process you did ? 😅
Shorten rear differential 🤙
Burning the plugs out would have been easier.....😂
Where and how do i order the size of axles I would need . I'm planning on cutting my rear axle
Call Dutchman Axels, they will send you a build sheet for your axels. Thanks for the comment!
Hey brother I'm getting ready to send my axles to dutchman for cut/respline. I have a question what is the tolerance and the measurement . Would a 1/16 be a problem?
@@IsaiasMoreno. The best thing to do is call Dutchman, they will tell you everything. I hope that helps, I use them all the time and never had any problems. Good luck!
For the little amount you removed…..would hav been off just changing the offset of the wheels
Not always an option depending on the wheel choice.
@@lethargicmotorsport2025 , it was every day junk 10 bolt , they come in different lengths already , no modifications needed ,
Just a waste of time and money !
@@jimthomas1989took less than an hour used stuff I already had and is exactly what I needed
@@lethargicmotorsport2025exactly! Thank you, you get it. Why would I want to have to put a certain wheel and there and be stuck with that one wheel
@@LocoCustoms , you just getting to answer a question that I n asked over 4 months ago ?
Great response time ,
I didn't give a $H1T then and I don't give a $H1T now !
New axles will cost more than that 10 bolt is worth hardly seems worth the time.
your music is much to loud it is very annoying.
your music is to loud and very annoying.
Its this or just buy some reverse deepdish rims like i did got 12” wide tires under a 57 Chevy just welded the leaf spring brackets on the inside of the frame! 🤔👍
Yep, That'll do except this one is lowrider style