I had some good chats with friends and a couple experts on the driveline situation and was able to finally come up with something that I think should work just fine.
The very front of the stock mustang driveline has a swage to it and it was bent right there so I went back just behind that and cut off the stock front yoke that is friction welded on there. I knew that I was going to be needing to machine the flange at the other end near the carrier bearing. Stock tube was just over 3" tubing so I grabbed a piece of 3" Driveline tube and a 3" 1350 weld yoke and non greasable 1350X spicer u joint. and Wanting to make sure that I got the driveline just right I mocked this up.
This is the mocked up version of my driveline hacked together in my shop for fitup.
You can see in this photo the chunk that I had to cut off the driveline. You can also see the bolts and stuff needed to bolt up this to the truck.
My buddy Dustin managed to take my stuff and build me a very factory like driveline that should be perfect. It fits extremely well.
Carrier Bearing mount
And then this happened....
Fluids. This is where things really get real. I managed to get the power steering fluid in the system and got it kind of bled out, opened up some fitting to make sure I was getting fluid around the system.
Got 7.5....yes 7.5 quarts of oil in the engine.
Then started bleeding the brakes. I did not have the best luck but I did manage to get the system all sealed up I think... and got all the air out after several hours of bleeding.
I am not sure about the pedal feel though, its really soft at the top and then firms right up but there is some pedal travel, quite a bit. I need to get it on the ground and see how it stops, if it sucks, back to the drawing board.
Hope to clean up my mess this morning and see what blows up when I hook up power.
Sean