good morning YouTube so we received another crate of these machine parts here and boy this
one picked all the heights and numbers of all the different spacers to just fill the box as we came
right up to the very top here so that's getting the most mileage out of the flat rate postage
more pieces you can ship in a given box the less cost there is shipping per part and these are what
we call our driveshaft spacers so to show you how they work this is a flange so this this could be
your transfer case output flange or it could also be the differential or third member pinion flange
so this would be the flange on the pinion gear of your differential and the idea what these spacers
is the flange has this recess and we make the spacers with a recess and then the drive shaft
actually has a raised portion like that part of the spacer and they fit together like that and
then the idea is you spin them around until the holes line up so this particular spacer has three
different bolt hole patterns it's got this pattern right here which fits the Toyota Landcruisers and
then we also have a hole pattern here that fits the early trucks on the inside so these
are slotted holes and they'll fit the later model Tacomas and four runners out here on the outside
of the slotted hole and we can see that here yeah here here's a hole that's on the inside so this is
a 60 by 60 millimeter bolt hole pattern and this one up here is a 65 by 65 fits on the outside of
that hole if you can see down in there we're on the outside and if we go around here we're on
the inside of that slotted hole a lot of times what will happen is you put a suspension lift
on your truck like a Tacoma 4runner pickup FJ cruiser models like that you do a suspension
lift if your axle is down here and your frames up here and you put a suspension lift you're
now lifting the drivetrain your transfer case or transmission higher up and it's a longer distance
between the two ends and so your driveshaft pulls apart or on the two-wheel drives it
pulls out of the slip yoke inside the back of the transmission and when that pulls out there's less
spline engagement and the output of the driveshaft tends to wobble and you get vibrations so what you
can do is put on one of these spacer and make up some of that difference in distance so the
space are basically lengthens your drive shaft so that it reaches down to the bottom hand and
it compensates for the lift that you put on and then that helps reduce your driveshaft vibrations
I got to get all of these unpacked we were out of a couple sizes so we've got three
quarter-inch nineteen millimeter there's one inch or 25 millimeters and then we have the inch and a
quarter which is roughly thirty millimeters and then we also make an inch and a half I had those
in stock that I was out of a couple of these sizes yeah just to wrap this up here we have
of course these spacers that I just got a shipment of and then we have this spacer which is what we
call our triple drilled spacer so it has three different bolt hole patterns one of them happens
to line up here this hole pattern is basically the same as the inside of this slaughtered one
because we found that a number of vehicles that need this 65 millimeter hole can also work with
a 60 so we made this one slotted because we've had a lot of customers that tried to use this hole and
for some reason they couldn't gain access to that part of the drive shaft and they had to use the
other end so what happens is this is the hole on the transmission end of the drive shaft and this
inner hole is the position on the pinion flange at the axle so the same vehicle can have two or
maybe three different bolt hole patterns on it that's why we make these spacers with all the
different holes so we have this one with the three hole pattern so it's got a total of twelve holes
and then we have the larger spacers which actually overlap just barely right there so this hole here
is 65 millimeter square pattern this hole here is a 66 millimeter square pattern and it's also
larger this is for 11 millimeter and then we do 77 millimeters and then we can also put a slot here
and make these work with 88 millimeter so that's all the pattern and if one of those doesn't work
we have blank spacers where you can drill your own bolt hole pattern and it's just as easy as putting
your your spacer against your flange either the transfer case flange or your axial pinion flange
and then just marking whichever set of four holes you need take the thing apart drill the four holes
and then put your bolts in and you can use it that way so we've got driveshaft spacers pretty
well covered blanks we've got these for the older Toyota's these for the newer ones and then the
larger ones are typically used on the Toyotas with the v8 engines they went to a larger much larger
flange size there so these are about four inches these are about five inches in diameter yeah I
got to get busy get these all unloaded put them back in inventory and update the webpage to say
we've got them back in stock and then I imagine I'll probably have a bunch of orders for these
today because we've had customers waiting for them so we'll we'll probably be shipping out
half of these we could for the end of the week once they're available and people snap them up
but it's always hard trying to pick which bolt hole pattern and in which thickness spacer you
need and then get that all to work with how many and what size can fit in this shipping
crate because if we put the bigger spacers in we can only get I think five of the bigger ones
we can get eight of the smaller ones in there and then depending on the thickness you can get
one two three or four spacers vertically so it's always a real juggling act trying to figure out
you know what sizes do we need and how many of each and try to anticipate what the customers
are going to order and try to get these on hand so we're finally back to having every single size
in stock so I got to get busy on that if you have any questions about the spacers I'll put a link to
our driveshaft spacer page over here on the side and you can check out that webpage and if you have
any just general questions post up in the comment section below and as always thanks for watching