One-piece driveshaft

[jondee86]

Considering that Toyota chose to make the OEM driveshaft a two-piece
design (which is more expensive) I figure they must have had a good
reason for making that choice. However, there are many cars, including
Toyota's, that work fine with one-piece driveshafts.

Max Misawa over at Club4AG sells one-piece shafts with Supra
rebuildable U-joints, and his customers seem more than happy with the
performance. So perhaps it comes down to the mass of the components,
U-joint angle and the clearances in the connected gearsets ?

Big Toyota's do run rubber donuts in the driveline, and I imagine they
are there to dampen torsional resonance ? Maybe using a two-piece
driveshaft serves a similar purpose ? Hey... interesting topic, and I hope
we can get a few more posts from people who have played around with
different setups.

Cheers... jondee86