Project: PapaBear

[6DoF]

talked to the driveline shop last night about the shaft ... guy straight up said "i've seen every failure and break possible, and i've never seen this"

SO, i decided to get a whole new shaft and have him bandaid the old one to have a spare. he says he'll fix the old one for free since i'm buying new, these have always been great guys, win. and since the 1350 needs clearanced to work right, he's actually going to clearance it for me before high speed balancing! it's going to be sooooo much better. he said he might not get 100% of everything i need clearanced, but he said he would get the majority of the worthless metal out of there before balancing.

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Originally Posted by 6DoF

talked to the driveline shop last night about the shaft ... guy straight up said "i've seen every failure and break possible, and i've never seen this"

SO, i decided to get a whole new shaft and have him bandaid the old one to have a spare. he says he'll fix the old one for free since i'm buying new, these have always been great guys, win. and since the 1350 needs clearanced to work right, he's actually going to clearance it for me before high speed balancing! it's going to be sooooo much better. he said he might not get 100% of everything i need clearanced, but he said he would get the majority of the worthless metal out of there before balancing.

Sounds like a great shop!

Your theory about the cap backing out makes the most sense. The trunion looks fine and I would hope the casting on the double cardan wasn't junk. Probably too much damage on the parts to do any kind of decent failure analysis or look for porosity. Given your track record with caps coming out, that's probably the most likely scenario.