Balancing aluminum GM driveshafts

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I DO NOT COMMISSION OFF THIS VIDEO NOR THE DRIVESHAFTS THEMSELVES. This is for entertainment only. I DO NOT take requests for driveshafts.
( 3 aluminum gm shafts, first of which was the big 5” tube, followed by the 34” in length and the 66 1/4 builds. Which I was able to get a full 00.00 on that last 66 1/4 build. Super proud. Love that. )
miller welder , mig , stainless steel to aluminum.
osha 🥲 …
-part 2 where we go in depth of how: • HOW to balance an alum...

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@darklydemons4497 10 ай бұрын

I’ll be making a more in depth video if anyone is interested. I’ll be going over the math, axis, run out, and a couple other variables that can help get your value down. (Balanced.) I was able to get some recording in today but I’m not sure how the audio worked out, we will see. My apologies if it’s not exactly what you expect. I’ll try my best

@darklydemons4497 10 ай бұрын

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@alexjohnward 10 ай бұрын

Great thumbnail! I like to see more details of what and how. Thanks for the upload.

@darklydemons4497 10 ай бұрын

Okay! So explaining more in depth such as the weights and the math that goes into it? Thanks for the watch !!:)

@CM-xr9oq 9 ай бұрын

Bruh... control yourself.

@michaelsorrentino9279 8 ай бұрын

Nice pair of u joints !!

@kh40yr 9 ай бұрын

I tell my guy to use his best .080 wall steel and spin it as fast as you can when balancing. Has held up to 3000hp+ at the drag strip, pounding it with nitrous and hard shifts, 225mph. Exploded 2 CarbonF shafts to the tune of almost $5k in loss when they would go. One almost took my legs. It almost got thru the ballistic kevlar. Done playing that CarbonF game. I'll take the heavier steel penalty, but keep the shaft where it belongs. Alum is good for fuel economy/free rotational hp. One of the main reasons the big players started using it versus steel,,and it's cheaper,,or was.

@darklydemons4497 9 ай бұрын

Agreed, whenever it comes to higher WHP or just HP in general I always recommend steel, because yes aluminum has a high tensile strength, it’s not gonna be able to withstand the jerks and POWA your engine and trans are giving it, thus steel.

@kh40yr 9 ай бұрын

Just subbed. Watch those red locks!!, don't let the spinning gear snag hold and rip to the roots,,F@@K! I watched a guy get wound in at Detroit Diesel, he lost 10" of hair and narrowly escaped. After that, lathes freak me out a bit and I keep it at 1/8th inch, lol. Nice spin, zeroed out. @@darklydemons4497

@drewmurray2583 9 ай бұрын

I am having great luck shortening aluminum GM driveshafts without re balancing them! I just make sure the runout is near 0 before I weld it and they have been good so far

@darklydemons4497 9 ай бұрын

Music to my ears

@justinkorpela7955 10 ай бұрын

Just came across your channel and really enjoy the content you seem pretty bad ass😊

@zacdrilling4554 9 ай бұрын

Shout out to the women who go out and get it done ✅ Thank you.

@ajgaylo 9 ай бұрын

shout out to the men who've been doing for centuries and never get a thank you.

@darklydemons4497 9 ай бұрын

@@ajgaylomen were the ones who taught me the trade and I’ll never forget. 3 main men made me the welder/fabricator/driveline I am today and I appreciate them so much.

@64Pete 9 ай бұрын

@@ajgaylo 🤡

@darklydemons4497 8 ай бұрын

As I’ll say one last time. STOP COMMENTING ABOUT THE CHUCK!!!!!! I AM PAID TO DO THIS EXACTLY AND HAVE BOTHERED THE ENGINEERS WHO BUILT THIS NUMEROUS TIMES AND WAS ASSURED THIS WONT CAUSE DAMAGE. We have some employees that use a steel hammer to lock these so rubber really doesn’t concern me. If it does break, it’s on them for giving me this tool and advising me to use it. STOP IT!!

@timhill4762 9 ай бұрын

Why is there blood spattered all up the wall!

@freddykoopmans6985 9 ай бұрын

They did testing and hired brainless people whom they had to pay less. It showed that you need some kind of brain to work with high-rpm spinning equipment. The girl in the movie seems to be smart enough to wear tight clothes, so it would not get in the balancing machine. but she forgot that the forklift operators could be distracted by her big rack. (That is a compliment to The Girl!, don't get me wrong, but male brains are very basic wired )

@darklydemons4497 9 ай бұрын

It’s grease ! When doing steel shafts there’s center bearings (multiple piece shafts) and some require grease so when it spins up it gets flicked in the back panel.

@SwapPartLLC 8 ай бұрын

It's from the previous employee whom she replaced. 🤕

@dhstube 8 ай бұрын

Nice driveshaft 😁

@acemobile9806 9 ай бұрын

I'm a first timer but not a last timer ❤ subbed. How does the jaw chuck not damage the sealing surface of the yoke? I assume smooth jaws but even then I would think make minute dents.

@apex107lrp 8 ай бұрын

Rosie the riveter, err, uh, welder! What we really want to know is did you balance the studs before putting them in?😛😁

@gkindustrialmachine1 10 ай бұрын

How do you know if your drive shaft could benefit from a balancing.. Performance wise, what would be some benefits? 3500 Chevy work truck... also, sweet girl with a good sense of humor, she could balance my shaft without complaint.

@darklydemons4497 10 ай бұрын

There’s a couple things that could help benefit >> 1. There could be play in the u-joints, (or trans yoke), such has a dropped pin from wear and tear which will definitely put off the balance. (Or broken seals which are also common). 2.what happens when it’s off balance is, it’ll thud and make loud thud/vibration noises. The point of this “balancer” is to mimic what it does on the car, as u can see it shows the rpm’s the trans will spin it at and if it needs weight it’ll go up and down/thud/wobble/and sound awful. The machine tells you where it would need weight to even out the spin, just like a tire. So balancing is definitely needed/required but 1 in like 100 you will spin up and everything will be assembled so perfectly (by you) that it’ll need no weight at all!! Though our standardized tolerances for ford/gm/toyota/etc require us to at least put 1 weight even if it spins out 0. (Stupid I know. They call it the show your work method.) but luckily this doesn’t happen often. Finally, if you end up driving your truck with uneven balance and just ignore the thud or wobble you could end up putting extreme excessive wear on the u joint or any other part (depending if it’s aluminum or steel) and cause the trans to not probably put out the power to the wheels. Also (I’ve only seen once) it twisted the actual driveshaft itself. Hope this helped 👁️🫦👁️ thankies for watching !! I’m glad to always make people laugh, even if I have a polish a shaft here or there;D jkjkjk haha

@gkindustrialmachine1 10 ай бұрын

Hey...Thanks for the info and making my mind wonder @@darklydemons4497

@cybrgost69 8 ай бұрын

Doesn't the weight of the weld affect the balance?

@DirectCurrent4u 8 ай бұрын

@darklydemons4497 8 ай бұрын

Yes.

@darklydemons4497 8 ай бұрын

@@DirectCurrent4uyes it does. You’re adding metal hence. Weight.

@joedrt0013 8 ай бұрын

🤔.... Wondering about strength.... Had to change pinion angle and ad bars at spring perches to hold angle.... 7" lift has had 3 dif owners of this truk put n chunks n gears... Whole rearends. Last guy... Split the 4l60case b4 the gearbox... Drove shaft n2 the ground... Anyway....👍💯🍻

@joehead1294 10 ай бұрын

What are the shafts for and are you watching your critical speed? Pretty long...

@darklydemons4497 10 ай бұрын

That one I believe is a 78”,, I do not know which truck it’s to since I don’t have the paperwork in front of me, but most aluminum shafts, and all 5.125” in diameter will be for GM trucks such as a Silverado (not saying this goes to it, just example.) because we can also get custom ones that are smaller for cars. It really depends on what the customer orders, customer being ford/chvy/ etc. and yes! The speed is calculated, it’s measured by transmission rpm’s. If you look on the screen it shows the rpm’s it’s getting spun at, just like in your car or truck.

@jonroland2702 8 ай бұрын

Instead of beating your t-handle with a hammer, tighten all three holes in your chuck and it'll hold great. I worked at a machine shop for nearly 20 years and found thru others mistakes that hitting your handle to tighten the chuck actually puts unnatural stress on the screw plate causing cracks and eventually junks it.

@darklydemons4497 8 ай бұрын

Can you read other comments ?

@darklydemons4497 8 ай бұрын

As I’ll say again, which I’m sick of saying it. ITS MADE BY MY COMPANY AND ITS MADE WITH HARDENED STEEL. SO ILL DO WHATEVER MY COMPANY PAYS ME TO DO 🥰

@Peter_Riis_DK 8 ай бұрын

Hey girl; you do not bang on a chuck key with a hammer, you get a proper key. Also you tighten _all_ the pinions. ☝ Btw; that red on the wall - is that blood from the previous tech? 😁

@darklydemons4497 8 ай бұрын

Please read other comments. These are produced by my company and they give me these tools and I’ve verified multiple times if this is okay, as well as confirming they are not in fact made with cast iron.

@Peter_Riis_DK 8 ай бұрын

@@darklydemons4497 No thanks. ;)

@serisothikos 10 ай бұрын

It's kind of amazing how a variance that isn't really visible to the naked eye on a stationary object becomes extremely visible once it's spun up.

@darklydemons4497 9 ай бұрын

Right! We’ve been doing this long enough that some of us can tell on a free spin, we watch how the light bends against it- that’s another way to check!:) (Though most can’t tell, it comes with time fr)

@theenchiladakid1866 9 ай бұрын

I hate to say it but I can never tell if girls going stuff if real of face because so many are doing it and being fake

@darklydemons4497 9 ай бұрын

Can assure it’s real… literally my job

@mikestevens8046 8 ай бұрын

Maybe some english classes??

@Charlie1012000 10 ай бұрын

never use a club to tighten any jaw chuck.

@darklydemons4497 10 ай бұрын

Not a Club. It’s a weighted hammer. I’m not strong enough to clamp it down all the way so that’s given. Please explain why I shouldn’t?

@darklydemons4497 10 ай бұрын

Like the RUBBER Mallet is hitting steel. Please explain 🤡🤡

@ShainAndrews 9 ай бұрын

@@darklydemons4497 It's beating on precision equipment... not a best practice. A person wants their equipment to maintain their tolerances for as long as possible. Smacking it around impacts spindle bearings, the scroll in the chuck, the strain gauges used to detect the balance conditions. Will it cause problems? Maybe. Solution is a larger chuck key. Longer the equipment operates as intended the more money you make. You're clearly not a novice... and this is the internet with the drive by commenters that never have the spine to converse.

@gkindustrialmachine1 9 ай бұрын

Maybe a small cheater bar ... small just to get some leverage, but I doubt she's doing any damage@@ShainAndrews

@darklydemons4497 9 ай бұрын

@@ShainAndrewswell my company that makes these machines, also provides the rubber Mallet and would much rather their little tool get whacked on then a whole driveshaft flying out and possibly injuring me or anyone else 👹 (My company who makes these balancers, I doubt will go through the trouble to making a bigger key for me.)