Recommended Driveshaft Shop in KC?

[Zane]

Anyone have a recommended driveshaft shop in KC. I have an extra set of shafts for my 80 and have purchased new toyota u joints. Would like to have them pressed and the shafts balanced. I have heard Inland Truck Parts & Service is good. Thoughts?

Zane

 

[kc_chevota]

I always take it to Inland, I tried a different place once and regretted it.

 

[Zane]

Rob, have you tried the one in Olathe, KS or do you always go North of the river out by Worlds of Fun? I work out at 135 and Metcalf so it would be closer to me.

 

[tornadoalleycruiser]

Thought there was one downtown i had used years ago. grumpy guy in the driveshaft shop from my recollection. he hated toyota driveshafts or at least shortening them.

 

[kc_chevota]

That would be Ivan. they move the downtown location to the south side of Worlds of fun. I have never been to the KS shop, don't know if they do shafts or send them to the MO shop.

 

[cjmoon]

it's been about 12 years but the south side shop did shafts back then.

 

[milemarker60]

I've had Ivan make custom shafts many times all with good results. On my last project I chose to use the Olathe location for convenience and seemed to do just fine.

 

[ccasteel]

My IH8MUD research seems to indicate I may have a bad u-joint in my LX470. If I want to have those replaced, should I just take it to Inland and have them source the parts? Or would you go ahead and buy the parts from Lexus and take them with the drive shaft?

 

[2fpower]

Any local shop can do U joints. Not sure that ranks up to an inland thing.

 

[1MAC]

Anybody with a vise and a hammer local shop can do U joints. Not sure that ranks up to an inland thing.

Fixed it for you.

 

[2fpower]

You can borrow a press from most local parts places. Mike did a couple in a few hours a while ago. There is a process that makes it easy to do, just youtube it.

 

[Willys43]

Charlie, I have a press, get the parts and we can press them in

 

[ccasteel]

Thanks Craig. I haven't pulled the driveshaft yet to confirm that's my problem. But when I do I'll give you a shout.

 

[tornadoalleycruiser]

Big cutting wheel on a grinder, cut old joint out tap caps thru. Makes instal a breeze. Smelly but kinda fun