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04-23-2018, 10:50 PM
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Drive shaft carnage
Had something go wrong with my one piece shaft guess ill have to ls swap now
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04-23-2018, 11:09 PM
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Who Changed This?
 
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Re: Drive shaft carnage
That blowed up real good! Was there any damage to the truck?
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04-23-2018, 11:27 PM
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Re: Drive shaft carnage
A few scratches on the bed supports and the carrier bearing x member but overall no damage but the shaft..trans might have some damage but can't tell yet...
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04-24-2018, 12:06 AM
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Re: Drive shaft carnage
Wow! That is scary.
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04-24-2018, 04:26 PM
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Re: Drive shaft carnage
Had that happen to a '69 Riviera years ago...all my fault. Tried to do a brake stand to do a burn out. When that didn't work, I dropped it from park to Drive at 2k RPM. Boom. Trashed the drive shaft and the tail shaft of the transmission at same time.
That was many years ago...Lesson learned. 
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04-24-2018, 04:46 PM
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Re: Drive shaft carnage
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Bad 71 Chevy...what lesson did you learn? Curious minds want to know! Hang in there and I'm glad nobody got hurt, those drive shaft failures can go real bad.
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04-24-2018, 08:08 PM
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Re: Drive shaft carnage
don't gun it on the interstate going 75 in rush hr traffic its always had a slight vibration at 75-80 then it would smooth out so I never really saw the need to deal with it... but I think when I put the nv3500 in the angle might have been slightly off and caused a harmonic vibration and the shaft must have had a week spot and came apart.. well that's my guess anyway
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04-24-2018, 09:56 PM
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Re: Drive shaft carnage
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04-24-2018, 10:26 PM
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Re: Drive shaft carnage
... happens to the nicest people
 .... did it to the Blazer a couple of months ago. Didn't damage anything else. The cross member contained it, made a pretty ugly noise.
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04-25-2018, 01:12 AM
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Re: Drive shaft carnage
Makes me feel a bit better to know I'm not alone. Now if I could only find that 4' of drive shaft off the interest I'd have a hell of a wall hanger
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04-25-2018, 02:31 AM
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Re: Drive shaft carnage
Dude, are you wearing pink thongs? A two piece drive shaft wouldn't do that...There's a very good reason why the General installed two piece drive shafts in "all" our trucks...
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04-25-2018, 11:26 PM
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Re: Drive shaft carnage
they are white lol... ya and there was a really good reason I had a one piece in there went through 4 carrier units in 2 years... do 2 pieces work yes will the carrier bearing take alot of abuse in my opinion no...and there are clearance issues once lowered after a certain height this shaft has been used since 2002. So I got my money out of it..
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04-26-2018, 07:39 AM
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Re: Drive shaft carnage
''all"?....my shortbed came from the factory with a one piece...its one of the few things that hasn't broken in the 40 yrs i've owned it
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04-27-2018, 12:49 AM
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Re: Drive shaft carnage
Not to mention almost all 2wd trucks now have 1 piece drive lines I have an aluminum one piece sitting in the garage to go behind my 6.0 and t56 just was waiting for the motor or something to happen to do the project..
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