Author Topic: Driveline failure -with pictures (Read 11057 times)

81RockerToy · « **on:** Sep 26, 2005, 07:35:57 PM »

This happened on the way home from Reiter last night. I wish it would have heppened on the trail, metal hits harder when its flung at +60mph.

[img width= height= alt=Image hosted by Photobucket.com]http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a361/GCHeath/damage5.jpg[/img]

wa4x4 · « **Reply #1 on:** Sep 26, 2005, 07:37:55 PM »

Damn dude that sucks. How come I didnt see you? I was in the main lot between 10:30 and 11:30. I had the Limback Lumber truck. How bad is the damage?

81RockerToy · « **Reply #2 on:** Sep 26, 2005, 07:41:16 PM »

It was actually friday night...we went night wheeling and I was comming home saturday morning to fuel up and grab a different friend to head back out there...my buddy sitting shotgun got cut up a little by the shards flying.

Him --->

<--- Me

alwayzbroken · « **Reply #3 on:** Sep 26, 2005, 07:53:54 PM »

I cant imagine what that sounded like inside the cab

Hyena · « **Reply #4 on:** Sep 26, 2005, 08:33:07 PM »

So what happened? Driveline bolts come off/ break? I have had my driveline bolts break going about 50mph. I slammed on the breaks and locked up all 4 tires. scarey

right there. I guess i kinda know what you went through. But it didn't do any damage to my truck.

SLOYOTA808 · « **Reply #5 on:** Sep 27, 2005, 01:09:14 AM »

Can't seem to pull up them pics...

I had my rear 3rd member lock up on me going 55 mph on a wet highway...

As I had my spare in the front seat, it was drop out/ drop in 1:30 AM...

Not fun...

germ · « **Reply #6 on:** Sep 27, 2005, 10:04:10 AM »

Pics not working for me, can you re-post them?

sorry to hear about your mishap. Hope your friend is OK.

Erik

mudmaster · « **Reply #7 on:** Sep 27, 2005, 11:26:49 AM »

No pics for me either

Hyena · « **Reply #8 on:** Sep 27, 2005, 01:46:20 PM »

pics were working, now they aren't.

Ramrod · « **Reply #9 on:** Sep 27, 2005, 02:24:05 PM »

I got some of my friends rear square shaft in lil sluice

Ramrod · « **Reply #10 on:** Sep 27, 2005, 02:25:56 PM »

If you look at the rock you can see two grooves that are like 2" deep from the shaft spinning on there before it snapped. You probably can't see them in the pics but you will definitley see them if you look next time your up there.

motorider228 · « **Reply #11 on:** Sep 27, 2005, 03:16:38 PM »

I cant see the pics, but i have a friend who busted his rear driveline going 55 and when it broke it bounced up and down hella hard and messed alot of stuff up on his under side. haha same kid blew up his third member driving down the road once. He said he was just driving and his rear end just locked up.

81RockerToy · « **Reply #12 on:** Sep 27, 2005, 03:23:56 PM »

sorry about the pix not working...the album they were connected to got deleted. I couldnt find the last one, but theres the damage.

germ · « **Reply #13 on:** Sep 27, 2005, 04:13:02 PM »

DAYUM! Remind me to go check my driveline bolts!

Erik

SLOYOTA808 · « **Reply #14 on:** Sep 27, 2005, 10:00:40 PM »

Quote from: bigbluewillys on Sep 27, 2005, 02:24:05 PM

I got some of my friends rear square shaft in lil sluice

Uhhhhhh.....POOR ROCK!

Ramrod · « **Reply #15 on:** Sep 28, 2005, 04:27:38 PM »

Nub should put up some pics of his d-line carnage from mcr4 it was pretty good.

Hyena · « **Reply #16 on:** Sep 28, 2005, 04:40:39 PM »

Quote from: bigbluewillys on Sep 28, 2005, 04:27:38 PM

Nub should put up some pics of his d-line carnage from mcr4 it was pretty good.

that was bad, i was right behind him when he did it. I had to pull him back so he could turn around. He turned around pretty good with only front wheel drive. That thing was a gonner.

Ramrod · « **Reply #17 on:** Sep 28, 2005, 05:00:58 PM »

yeah by the time I saw that truck it was not lookin as good as it does in the pictures on here. What happened to him? did he drive home in front wheel?

SLOYOTA808 · « **Reply #18 on:** Sep 28, 2005, 05:09:30 PM »

Who'd a thought to carry spare shafts...

Where you all wheel in the US of A, getting home might mean 50 miles or so; here in Honolulu, we worry when we break down 2 miles from the highway!

Ramrod · « **Reply #19 on:** Sep 28, 2005, 05:33:03 PM »

I think that kid had more like a 8 or 10 hour drive home from the rubicon. I am going to make a spare driveshaft pretty soon. Also my front has enough travel that if I really had to I could use it as the rear shaft.

81RockerToy · « **Reply #20 on:** Sep 28, 2005, 07:17:52 PM »

I have spare shafts for both ends. You cant tell from the pictures, but the flange off the t-case is really warped. plus the third member is missing a chunk from its flange. $130 later it was in my driveway.

Hyena · « **Reply #21 on:** Sep 28, 2005, 10:28:46 PM »

I got my trail driveline and my street driveline. Trail driveline is 1/4 inch thick sch 80 i think and is not ballanced. Street driveline is just regular and is ballanced with a new u-joint. Street driveline has no vibrations at all. trail driveline starts vibrating at about 30mph.

I don't know if he drive home in front wheel drive or what. Last i heard he was looking for a driveline there.

slabcs · « **Reply #22 on:** Sep 29, 2005, 08:15:38 PM »

NUb is my brother. He stole my rear drive shaft for the drive home. My baby was trailered home. We took off from Rubicon Springs on Saturday night so we wouldn't have to hold up everyone on Sunday. He got stuck on Cadillac Hill pretty early because he only had front wheel drive, and since he had a V6, he decided he gets my rear driveshaft. We hooked up a tow strap and towed my rig out of the Rubicon because then I only had front wheel drive. It was no bueno.

Ramrod · « **Reply #23 on:** Sep 30, 2005, 09:02:13 PM »

that sucks dude. I saw you guys as you were leaving. me and my friend were setting up camp right on the side of the trail. I had the white truck with the way cut fenders and bobbed bed on the left side of the trail

RHG · « **Reply #24 on:** Sep 30, 2005, 09:49:29 PM »

You two were lucky you didnt have a hand setting on the hump or it have been a mess. Thats some scary

right there...coulda been worse though if it caught the pavement. Is that a myth or could it happen? Ya know the d-shaft catapulting a vehicle if it caught a spot on the road?

Ramrod · « **Reply #25 on:** Oct 01, 2005, 05:38:01 AM »

its a myth, saw it on mythbusters

seanc · « **Reply #26 on:** Oct 01, 2005, 11:52:40 AM »

not to hard to do...

mudmaster · « **Reply #27 on:** Oct 01, 2005, 03:00:05 PM »

Ouch

seanc · « **Reply #28 on:** Oct 02, 2005, 03:31:32 PM »

that is without any d-line contact... with any part of the ground or rocks.

Willy Mammoth · « **Reply #29 on:** Oct 02, 2005, 03:45:24 PM »

I did that once too in the mud here. It pull the splines apart, fell to the ground and stuck in the mud. I wound up driving over it and broke the cv off.

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