Abstract: A method of manufacturing a hollow spindle, especially for the pivotal mounting of valve-actuating levers to control exhaust-and-intake valves of an internal combustion engine. The spindle has an outer tube, in the interior of which a shaped tubular body is fixed in order to form at least two liquid-carrying chambers. To form a chamber, the tubular body is provided with a cutout extending in the longitudinal direction. The tubular body is a shaped inner tube that, seen in cross-section, has an inwardly-curved region that makes a rounded and stepless transition to the circular region, and of the tubular body. At least the circular region is joined by virtue of its material to the outer tube.