420WHP944

Shredded a torque tube shaft?? I've since replaced it but all my searching through the various forum's has drawn a blank in finding a similar story....??

MooreBoost

bought a car not to long ago with a stage 3 clutch. bell housing in back had 3 of the 4 bolts and broke the bell housing and shaft

420WHP944

I'm running a Spec stage 3 clutch.....Looks like it could be a major factor to the shaft breaking?

LS1Porch

Heyyy....nice work!
You know, Constantine has been working on an improved shaft. Might want to give him a shout!

Does seem pretty strange, though.

Tom M'Guinn

I'm sure the clutch and rwhp helped, but wonder if bad bearings might contribute to that it the shaft starts bouncing around in there?

If you're going to have a failure though, that's the way to do it -- twist the drive shaft in two!!

carlege

nice going Tex!

ehall

JET951 just had a similar incident in Australia. I've now seen four or five. It's odd how some issues come up in batches. IIRC, all of the cars in question were running big HP numbers, or atleast considerably more than stock.

333pg333

^^That was a rear axle actually Elliot.

ehall

ahhh. That's right. I'm surprised it didn't destroy the cv's first.

333pg333

Yes, I wondered that myself. Makes me think it was certainly fatigue rather than a single event.

theedge

Theres been a few, but IIRC its usually the teeth have gotten rounded off or ruined, or its been at the rear on the transaxle coupler.

Lots of hard launches?

Bill

Ok Old Timers is setting in....but I seem to remember reading somewhere, that the Turbo S had a stronger torque tube as one of the upgrades?

LS1951

I shattered my Torque tube shaft in my LS1 car. I also broke out a huge chunk of the rear "bell housing". I suspect the bell housing went first and this allowed the trans to rotate upwards which then sheared the shaft. This happened when I shifted into second gear while racing a Mustang.

Cole

How long ago was that shaft broken? That rust looks like that torque tube had been out of the car for years?

420WHP944

Happened last August....Rust can take hold pretty quick, you only have to look at your brake discs after a day or two if a car is left standing...Rust never sleeps!