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Surely I'm not the only one who....
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....??
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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!!
If you're going to have a failure though, that's the way to do it -- twist the drive shaft in two!!
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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.
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^^That was a rear axle actually Elliot.
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Yes, I wondered that myself. Makes me think it was certainly fatigue rather than a single event.
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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?
Lots of hard launches?
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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.
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