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Old Apr 20, 2013 | 05:26 PM
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I'm going to finally made the two piece driveshaft conversion on my truck. My question is that I'm going to buy the one that comes out on the nbs extended cab....my Sierra is an nnbs do I need to rebalance the used driveshaft or what do you guys recommend?
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Old Apr 20, 2013 | 07:28 PM
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some truck info would work really well

as for my truck the 1st time i just installed it an had no issues.
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Old Apr 20, 2013 | 10:24 PM
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for the cost no harm in a high speed balance!
are you anywhere near driveshaft specialist in san antonio? cause they can do that
I'm doing the swap this week too, except I ordered a brand new shaft from DSS
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Old Apr 21, 2013 | 01:36 AM
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im also wanting to do this i have a crew cab nnbs. what truck do i get the 2 piece drive shaft off of?
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Old Apr 21, 2013 | 04:34 PM
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bump.. really wanting to know how to do this
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Old Apr 22, 2013 | 07:59 PM
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The guys from the valley are using the two piece driveshaft from a nbs extended cab..like a 2004-06
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Old Apr 22, 2013 | 09:09 PM
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what all has to be done?
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Old Apr 22, 2013 | 09:53 PM
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Probably need to build a cross member to mount the carrier Bearing. Not sure if they are direct fit on length or what. Curious myself
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Old Apr 22, 2013 | 10:36 PM
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Just did this swap this weekend. Driveline was out of a 2004 ext cab, new carrier bearing and u joints installed and just fabbed up a cross member from 1x3" rect tubing.
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Old Apr 22, 2013 | 10:48 PM
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what year is your truck and is yours a crew cab?
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