Believe me, Ryan, I have done things like that before, too. I was lucky with drive shafts, though. Years ago I saw a picture in a magazine of a drive shaft being made and there was a picture of the end yoke. All I had to do then was figure out how to get it apart. I had no idea about the balance weights and getting the U-joints in phase. Probably more luck than knowledge back then. I cut that first one with a hacksaw, welded it with a stick welder and it worked fine. The rest, as they say, is history.