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Posted by chriscase@san diego on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 at 19:57:50 :
In Reply to: Thanks paul posted by wet coast Bruce on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 at 00:05:43 :
U-joints and tubular shafts are not exactly shear pins. Bigger u-joints may wear longer, but broken axles out number broken stock u-joints by about a gazillion to one.
I have seen twisted off drive shafts, but that was in a big truck shop where gobs of torque was applied to megatons of load. I doubt that any 6-7,000# pick-up sized truck has enough resistance against the torque to suffer a knotted drive shaft. It's the tires that slip under excessive load, no matter the drive line.
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