Drive shafts

tlak · Mar 1, 2010

We did see, at different time, two vehicles with their drive shafts on the ground one in the middle of the road from a truck with several people gathered around a stopped car. Figured the shaft might have hurt somebody in the car.
Make sure to check U-joints.

thurlow · Mar 1, 2010

Used to be a contractor around 'here' who hauled prisoners inter and intrastate in 15 passenger vans......driver and one guard in front; convicts in cage in back; dropped a front u-joint while going down the interstate; van catapulted and caught on fire; can you say crispy critters?

Brian G. NY · Mar 1, 2010

Back around 1960, I was driving near Albany on a concrete 4 lane road when a "55 Chevy coming in the opposite direction dropped the front end of his driveshaft and it caught in the expansion crack. The back of the car went up about 4 feet and swung around sideways. To this day, I can"t understand why it didn"t "roll". Probably the strangest thing I"ve ever seen in my over 50 years of driving.

JMS/.MN · Mar 1, 2010

Sometimes a "click" is deceiving. Was hauling a 5-18 plow on a trailer, heard the click when starting and stopping, Checked the u-joint...ok. Found a bad truck wheel hub- wheel was loose, holes mushroomed, studs damaged, 1-2 broken off.

Harold Hubbard · Mar 2, 2010

During the snowstorm we had this week, a local snowplowing contractor's employee broke a front drive shaft on a 4x4 pickup. As I understand it the shaft let go at the axle, flailed around and caught the wiring harness, and wound up everything clear to the back of the truck. It also pounded the AC compressor and maybe power steering and brake lines.

To compound the problem he got some "help", hooked on to it with a log skidder, and towed it backwards down the driveway he had been plowing. Once they got to the town road, instead of re-hooking to the front end and winching the plow up tight against the skidder, they continued down the road with the truck going backwards.

The guy driving the skidder, afraid that the pickup was going to catch up and hit him, kept going faster and faster. Finally he turned the skidder out into the snowbank, but not far enough. The pickup hit the rear wheel of the skidder and destroyed the pickup bed. I sure would like to hear the boss discussing that with his hired help.

Drive shafts

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