Anyone Snapped Driveshafts?

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Post Wed Jun 04, 2014 9:33 am

Just wondering if mine is normal? Its almost like its been sawn off.

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Post Wed Jun 04, 2014 1:27 pm

:eek:

what the heck are you running?
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Post Wed Jun 04, 2014 1:30 pm

Driving it properly then? :twisted: Good man :D
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Post Wed Jun 04, 2014 2:29 pm

Looks like crash/drift damage to me
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Post Wed Jun 04, 2014 5:59 pm

DanThe wrote:Looks like crash/drift damage to me
Just like yours at Santa Pod then.... :wink: :D
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Post Wed Jun 04, 2014 6:24 pm

Rav335uk wrote:
DanThe wrote:Looks like crash/drift damage to me
Just like yours at Santa Pod then.... :wink: :D
Yes, if your a bit thick you could confuse the two :P
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Post Wed Jun 04, 2014 6:48 pm

DanThe wrote:
Rav335uk wrote:
DanThe wrote:Looks like crash/drift damage to me
Just like yours at Santa Pod then.... :wink: :D
Yes, if your a bit thick you could confuse the two :P
No, not thick Dannyboi.
You likes to "Skid" innit.
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Post Wed Jun 04, 2014 6:55 pm

Could well be crash damage, 70 mph ish through a fence and into a ditch. But wondering if driveshaft broke mid corner or when crashing. If it was impact damage I'd expect splinters not a clean break like it is.
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Post Wed Jun 04, 2014 7:33 pm

Looking at the arm its bent up massively which is what I imagine has caused the driveshaft to break, if you take the boot off the CV you might get some more clues
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Post Thu Jun 05, 2014 5:00 pm

Yes all the time.....shafts sit level when the car is on the ground too...
90% of the time its shifting between 1-2/2-3 or launching

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not by crashing though...... :wink:
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Post Thu Jun 05, 2014 6:26 pm

Looks like yours gone in a similar place, but mine looks a very clean break.
Unsure if mine is due to a crash, or whether it broke mid corner.
I seemed to have a good line, then suddenly felt like I was drifting on ice and slid into a fence. lol
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Post Thu Jun 05, 2014 11:48 pm

Was it inside or outside shaft that snapped? As in when you were drifting?
My experience of them snapping the car just stops doing whatever it was doing and I just end up doing a big on wheel burnout

All the broken ones I have had have been clean breaks like yours have shown, the pictured on is a big mangaled as I drove 50 miles home on it
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Post Thu Jun 05, 2014 11:53 pm

Would be the inside driveshaft, on a left hand corner. So if it snapped mid corner, all power would go to outside wheel, possibly making me skid 4-6 feet wider than normal.

Pics of crash are in my build topic.
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Post Fri Jun 06, 2014 3:20 pm

Ok, yes i would say it would push the car wider losing a driveshaft, the two i have snapped whilst drifting have made me spin straight away.

Surprised it would have snapped the inside drive shaft though....

Most snaps look like this
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Post Fri Jun 06, 2014 4:07 pm

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