So what are you going to do to prevent this from happening again?
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84_Chevy_K10
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So what are you going to do to prevent this from happening again?
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Probably not run square tube driveshafts...or if he does, probably grease them!
So what are you going to do to prevent this from happening again?
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Probably not run square tube driveshafts...or if he does, probably grease them!
I did that to the bellhousing once.... /forums/images/graemlins/rotfl.gif /forums/images/graemlins/rotfl.gif /forums/images/graemlins/rotfl.gif
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So what are you going to do to prevent this from happening again?
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I'm going to do a couple of things already in the works.
1) Lube the square shafts. Probably with dry lube, or maybe with a boot made from an inner tube and add a grease zerc.
2) Much more solid mounts on the engine and transfer cases. Basically rigid mount the drive train, especially the back. This is quite a change from my old way of thinking.
3) But the thing I think may well make the most difference is going to rear links. Thinking back, every time I've broken something like this, I've also bent a spring climbing a water fall (or two /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif). The spring bending while climbing near vertical cause the axle to jump forward at the same time the shaft is in a major bind and can't easily collapse. With rear links there will be very little front to back movement of the axle so, combined with lube on the shafts, I think that would take care of the problem all on it's own.
Biggest contributor here (I think) is that I took a lead from some of the other guys out here who run square shafts. They mostly run them dry and have no problems. And several of those ran lube in them initially but found they got all full of junk and experienced excessive wear and bind due to contaminated grease. So, accepting their explanation and experience, I ran mine dry. Unfortunately, their experience is different than mine, due to (I think) the difference in rigs. They have smaller (usually Toy based) truggies/buggies with 4 cyl, (usually) links, and 37(ish) tires. Where I have a much heavier V8 truggy running 42s with links that bend frequently. Oops! /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif Live and learn...
So what are you going to do to prevent this from happening again?
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I'm going to do a couple of things already in the works.
1) Lube the square shafts. Probably with dry lube, or maybe with a boot made from an inner tube and add a grease zerc.
2) Much more solid mounts on the engine and transfer cases. Basically rigid mount the drive train, especially the back. This is quite a change from my old way of thinking.
3) But the thing I think may well make the most difference is going to rear links. Thinking back, every time I've broken something like this, I've also bent a spring climbing a water fall (or two /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif). The spring bending while climbing near vertical cause the axle to jump forward at the same time the shaft is in a major bind and can't easily collapse. With rear links there will be very little front to back movement of the axle so, combined with lube on the shafts, I think that would take care of the problem all on it's own.
Biggest contributor here (I think) is that I took a lead from some of the other guys out here who run square shafts. They mostly run them dry and have no problems. And several of those ran lube in them initially but found they got all full of junk and experienced excessive wear and bind due to contaminated grease. So, accepting their explanation and experience, I ran mine dry. Unfortunately, their experience is different than mine, due to (I think) the difference in rigs. They have smaller (usually Toy based) truggies/buggies with 4 cyl, (usually) links, and 37(ish) tires. Where I have a much heavier V8 truggy running 42s with links that bend frequently. Oops! /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif Live and learn...
