Drive shaft? NEED TO KNOW ASAP

[Boggen Joe]

On a font drive shaft does the slip have to be at the pig or can I put it up by the t case?
My shaft does not have a CV in it

[michigan maniac]

I would put it at the pig, with a driveshaft loop, just incase it breaks where the tube sizes change, I don't think it would really matter though, car factories do it both ways, as long as it slides you should be ok

[chevystudz7105]

ive got mine up by my tcase.  did it that way cuz i needed a little more clearance by my cross memeber when my front suspension is hanging. (if i were to ever jump it on accident or on purpose lol)  havent had any issues with it

[ToughBowtieTruck]

Slips are done both ways. The only thing that ever mattered is on the older straight axle trucks they used the limiting joint at the case (It's not a CV joint, two different concepts) so the front shaft couldn't hit the ground if it blew at the axle.

However, manufacturers went away with that when they went to IFS. But even though the front diff doesn't move, they still needed something to hold the front shaft from blowing down to the ground if a u-joint failed. Ever wonder why factory exhaust gets routed under the drive shaft  on an IFS truck?

There's the hoop when you never even knew it was there.

['the DON']

my front shaft the slip is at the axle. the rear the slip is at the tcase, hoops on both. lesson learned the hard way.