When the right yoke doesn't exist and they need to have the better yoke, and you are a machinist and you make it there is no efficiency issue.
There is no lack of efficiency to what i said to do, in fact in this case when 1 yoke is 15 lbs and the other is 3 lbs, who's is more efficient ?
The person who knows what machining alterations needing to be done to make it right is invaluable, and going to make it right.
A end yoke is made with a MD, TH, GH and spline count and type... If the spline type and count match, the other specs can be modified to work, i have done this for cars, trucks, race cars, boats hundreds and hundreds of times, simply because the end yoke they have or had or need doesn't exist.
No lack of efficiency, how do you get the right yoke when only 1 or 2 exist, the gm version or the dodge version. AAM is not like spicer and is not making 10 versions of a ___ spline and 10 versions of that spline angle.
So now the part you need is modified.
There is a aftermarket company making them also, which is also probably lighter but the price is big. .
Oh yes they can, they take it send it to there people in china and now you have a cheaper copy of the OEM part.
They do it with lots of stuff. . .
Why monkey **** around for 45 minutes to machine a $90 dollar yoke to replace a $135 yoke? And now, in the future, when the next owner needs a yoke they will go get the spicer replacement, not notice the chamfer and wonder why the thing doesn't fit correctly when it matches the one that came off of there.
The one yoke is very heavy and you do not want heavy in the driveline.
The other is lighter, but truth be told the chamfer is not taking even more than 1 minute to duplicate on another yoke....45 minutes if you're a mentally challenged machinist or not a machinist, i have never taken 45 minutes to machine yokes that needed more than 1 modification, and that includes setting the machine.
Thats what she said!But he is Mr. Supershaft! LOL
Its a balanced part, who cares how heavy it is. Whats it going to do? Rob 1 hp? Its also part of a fixture and not suspended weight as if it were in the middle of the driveshaft.
You can pull a yoke off the shelf and put it in the customers hand and invoice it in five minutes time. Dont tell me it takes one minute to grab the yoke from stock, walk over to the lathe, indicate it ( which buy the way, i dont care how good you are, indicating a yoke is a project seeing as how you have to check the face and they dont always have flat surfaces to grab), set your tool post and holder,
Now hows about we let this go so the OP can go buy him self a set of straps for the yoke he already has and be on his merry way?
It's not about nickels, or making the customer pay... i can see you aren't in business and surely you have no clue how to keep customers and keep them happy.
You got a lot to learn about weight in the driveline also, eventually you'll learn that pounds in the driveline are close to 10 times compared to carrying weight, so losing a few pounds in the driveline is equivalent to losing 30 to 50 lbs carrying...so when you lose 20 lbs it's like losing 250 to 350 carrying, so losing as much as possible is performance gained, so if faced with a heavy end yoke and light there is sense in using the lighter end yoke.
Yes unfortunately as hard as it is for you to understand I can take the yoke off the shelf set it on my made precision tools that holds it on center by the spline in about less than 1 minute and begin machining length or diameter or making any other modification to it. (lol if you were smart you would know you could use a old pinion machined also instead of making the tooling i did and still be set up in less than 1 minute and just slide them on) .
Sounds like you have no idea how to machine a yoke properly, but if you aren't holding it on the spline you're doing it wrong.
you keep learning and maybe one day you'll know how to make tools too...
I can also hold the end yoke by the joint in another tool, but you may not understand that either, also less then 1 minute from end yoke off the shelf into adapter into machining...
45 minutes, maybe if i were in the business of milking cows that'd be acceptable.
You apparently didn't read anything, read it again and think somewhat this time, if you are a machinist it shouldn't take long to figure out how it's being held.
You do know how to use a BP ?
There are many many yokes not being made anymore, many yokes not being made a in a particular series for some diffs and transfercases and euro stuff other than specialty aftermarket, not just 1 or even this, you are dispelling something and only because you know of this one particular yoke...
I see many trucks running heavy stuff on there driveline