1Bad69

Friday night off of a stop light...luckily i was not at cruising speed...not too much damage...u-joint sheared...half shaft did a bit of damage....

Fevre

OUCH! That's gotta hurt.
Old saying: if you ain't breakin' you ain't racin'.
Guess you where racing Mike. :jester

James

I think you got off pretty good with little to no damage!!!!
What kind of a joint was it?
I get those bad images in my mind of that happening all of the time.

1Bad69

Chris...i wouldnt feel so bad if i was on it, but i just pulled away from the light like anyone else and BANG....

75Rag

Sorry about your luck Mike ... there is a down side to all that torque!!

I guess your off to see Sean again ........

turtlevette

did those U-joint have grease zirks?

Stewart's74

Now you have an excuse to make the underside of your car as shiny as the topsides. :cheers:

AGVI

I feel your pain. I've done it twice! Imagine if I had the torque that you have...heh heh heh.

I have a cracked battery box because of u-joint failure...

It sucks, but you'll have to replace the joint and shaft at most.

Good luck, Les :cheers:

MotorHead

You must have heard about PhotoShop ?, great little tool for making pictures veiwable :lol:

gdh

Now you can go out an buy those carbon fibre ones that GrandsportC3 (Olivier) has. Not only are they light and cool looking, they will cost us Canadians a small fortune @$600 US for the pair.

Larry B.

That's why you want to use SPICER U joints without grease fittings. Nothing else comes close. You can't cut corners on half shaft U joint.SPICER..... Spicer. or Spicers

NHvette

Wow that sux, Mike. Well, at least it was at low speed.... minimal damage.

Hey - at least we finally get to see the dirty side of your vette. :lol: :seeya

1Bad69

not likely....u joints are the problem, not the half shafts...i've never seen half shafts break before the joints do...

R 73 454

Hmmm....., maybe it's time to change mine! I agree spicer the way to go!!! No zerk fittings for me thanks. :eek: :eek: :eek:

gdh

hang around a track a little, you'll see lots of drivetrain parts including half shafts let go before U joints, the point being that with the tq. you engine produces and given that fact that it or a combination of things severely cracked your fibreglass rear spring the other year and led you to replace it with a steel one, there has to be some serious metal fatigue setting in why not look at replacing both halfs and u-joints - the carbon fibre was a joke although I wish I could afford them for myself. :cheers:

1Bad69

i am replacing the 2 1/2 inch shafts with bigger ones...also all 4 u joints with heavy duty ones...its a start...

NHvette

That's what I was going to suggest ... the later model shafts that are slightly larger.
I had trouble finding the Spicers near me - special order for my parts store.
I ended up using the cheaper Brute Force non-greasables - but mine is a SB.

My69

Yeouch!! I feel for you. That really stinks :mad

Summerfun

I would love a link(s) and/or part numbers for the heavier half shafts and u joints if anyone has them!! Places to buy?

1Bad69

i get a lot of stuff from a local guy that has been dealing Vette parts forever...he had them laying around....100 bucks each including the yokes...