I've been getting a lot of 1710 and 1810 driveline jobs. I'm wanting to invest in some assembly fixturing.
I support the tube in V-blocks, heat the tube ends, slip the ends in with an alignment fixture on a flat table. Then I put them between centers in a lathe and tweak until the tube ends are with 5 thou. It's the tweaking the ends that's the cocksucker. Common to be out .050". Class 8 stuff doesn't move easily.
I'd like to be able to assemble the ends to the tubing in phase in the lathe, as straight as possible and tweak them in while the ends are cooling.
Anyone else made tooling for bigger driveline work?
This isn't my primary gig, but the closest decent driveline shop is a couple hours away with a couple weeks backlog common. Lots of logging, aggregate and offroad guys around me to support driveline repair.
I support the tube in V-blocks, heat the tube ends, slip the ends in with an alignment fixture on a flat table. Then I put them between centers in a lathe and tweak until the tube ends are with 5 thou. It's the tweaking the ends that's the cocksucker. Common to be out .050". Class 8 stuff doesn't move easily.
I'd like to be able to assemble the ends to the tubing in phase in the lathe, as straight as possible and tweak them in while the ends are cooling.
Anyone else made tooling for bigger driveline work?
This isn't my primary gig, but the closest decent driveline shop is a couple hours away with a couple weeks backlog common. Lots of logging, aggregate and offroad guys around me to support driveline repair.