[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE-2i7K6Az0"]YouTube - Ford Lightning Broken Drive Shaft[/nomedia]
Broke the Drive Shaft at the Strip Today...
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that sucks man but it could have been worse. time for a ds loop, jlp makes one that takes maybe 10 min to install
Yeah, I'm pretty disappointed because I was actually really close to getting one a month or so ago...I really didn't know that I had enough power to do that! How do the high horsepower guys not do this more often?
i was thinking the same thing when i looked at your list of mods. any pics of where it broke? it might of had some previous damage and today was the day:shrug:
the cometary was amusing lol, i would of been dropping f-bombs all over the place
the cometary was amusing lol, i would of been dropping f-bombs all over the place
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hmm, was expecting it to be body of the driveshaft. i suppose after years of that u joint banging against aluminum flange yoke it gets weak and gives out
which one are you going to go with next
carbon fiber
steel
or the same
which one are you going to go with next
carbon fiber
steel
or the same
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Sorry to hear from your damage!! Hope that there is not more broken?! So I think a loop is a good investment!
Chris
Chris
That's why I've stuck with my steel drive shaft. The first mod to my truck was a ds loop and traction bars.
I'm not sure which kind I'll buy to replace it. Probably another aluminum one and a loop. I haven't seen any steel ones and when I was looking at cf ones it looked like they still have aluminum ends on them so it wouldn't really prevent this problem (uneducated opinion)...I couldn't find much by searching here or on google.
I would take a stock aluminium and a loop. Carbon is ass expensive and as you say, they have aluminium ends too. I think it is not allday to broke the drive shaft, so a loop for safety and rock on.
One of the biggest reasons they break is when you don't have traction bars of any kind.
They typically break due to axle wrap.
They typically break due to axle wrap.
It's time to buy 3 things now:
Drive Shaft
Long Bars or Metco's
DS loop
Drive Shaft
Long Bars or Metco's
DS loop
100% correct. Watching the video it is obvious you got wheel hop on the launch. That will potentially break the driveshaft of a stock Lightning. Tha problem is not the aluminum driveshaft, the problem is wheelhop. At your power level a set of Lakewood slappers are all you needed to prevent that from happening.
Thats why I tell all new Lightning owners to get a set of traction bars and a drive shaft loop.
Might be a silly question guys, but is drive shaft install as easy as it sounds/looks? Anything I need to know or any reason I shouldn't do the work myself?
Pretty much a simple bolt in Process...just have to make sure you get the bolts torqued right. Be care full about leaking trans fluid put of the tail shaft...
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