bagged and z'ed steering shaft
 

I'm looking to find the safest and best way to step my steering shaft. The front is z'ed 3 inches and I'm goin to bag it. Anybody have an good examples of what u joints to use and if you are removing the rag joint.

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I'll take a pic of mine and post it but I modified a stock astro van shaft to my 1 ton in my signature. Bare with me til tomorrow and ill post it up.

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Do you really need to? On my 68 i just notched the arm to clear the shaft

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Idk bout 1/2 ton cus my uppers are different.

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Yes cuz of the 3 inch z' the shaft is already stress. I plan on notching the arms too.

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Best I got only reason the old rag joint is there is because the splines are different on the astro. Keep in mind this is a rat rod so in wasn't shooting for appearance but if u want it nice get some u joints from a race shop and some DD rod and build one

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Another

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Also it's bagged, z'd 4", and body dropped 4" so I had to notch as well

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I bought the borgeson joints and shaft for mine...

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Thanks for the heads up. Why did you go with a astro shaft?

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Because it has an adjustable slide built in that allows you to modify the length when fitting