Anybody replacing HD driveshafts

[guardrail]

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I put a heavy duty MB drive shaft in my sled about 9000 miles ago. It's got a lot of hard miles on it. I was wondering if anybody has ever broken a heavy duty shaft after a lot of miles? I'm going to start working on the sled in the next month or so, and I am trying to think of what needs replacing.
The sled has about 11000 miles on it, I was thinking about changing the jackshaft too.
Any thoughts?

 

[APEX 06]

Have the HD shaft on my 08 Mtx with 4500miles with a superchager on it and all is good. A-arm bushings or steering shaft bushings.

 

[87gtNOS]

Posted in the General section and didn't get any replies.


I put a heavy duty MB drive shaft in my sled about 9000 miles ago. It's got a lot of hard miles on it. I was wondering if anybody has ever broken a heavy duty shaft after a lot of miles? I'm going to start working on the sled in the next month or so, and I am trying to think of what needs replacing.
The sled has about 11000 miles on it, I was thinking about changing the jackshaft too.
Any thoughts?

what is an MB driveshaft?

 

[mdkuni]

MB = Micro Belmont, at least I think that is what he is referring to. Company in Michigan that makes them. I did break my Micro Belmont shaft somewhere around 10k. I now replace the drive shaft as part of my yearly maintenance.

 

[DigitalFusion]

md, you should note that the reason you replace the driveshaft yearly, is because you put more miles on your sled in a year, then some of us do in our daily driver vehicles!

 

[DigitalFusion]

md, you should note that the reason you replace the driveshaft yearly, is because you put more miles on your sled in a year, then some of us do in our daily driver vehicles!

 

[mdkuni]

md, you should note that the reason you replace the driveshaft yearly, is because you put more miles on your sled in a year, then some of us do in our daily driver vehicles!

This is true!

 

[guardrail]

Posted in the General section and didn't get any replies.


I put a heavy duty MB drive shaft in my sled about 9000 miles ago. It's got a lot of hard miles on it. I was wondering if anybody has ever broken a heavy duty shaft after a lot of miles? I'm going to start working on the sled in the next month or so, and I am trying to think of what needs replacing.
The sled has about 11000 miles on it, I was thinking about changing the jackshaft too.
Any thoughts?

what is an MB driveshaft?

I was talking about Micro Belmont.

I think I might change it, just to be safe. Since I put a ZX2 suspension in the sled, there's not much to do to get ready.

 

[mdkuni]

guardrail, you might want to take note of the fact that those MB drive shafts had a flaw. They did not recess the bolt hole on the chain case side like it is on the OEM shafts. This causes the stock bolt to bottom out and caused me a lot of headache before I found out. I had the bolt back out which blew a hole threw the chain case. Had to walk because of it. It also explains why I stripped a couple of those bolts. I originally thought I damaged them during assembly.

 

[sleddog66]

guardrail, you might want to take note of the fact that those MB drive shafts had a flaw. They did not recess the bolt hole on the chain case side like it is on the OEM shafts. This causes the stock bolt to bottom out and caused me a lot of headache before I found out. I had the bolt back out which blew a hole threw the chain case. Had to walk because of it. It also explains why I stripped a couple of those bolts. I originally thought I damaged them during assembly.

Interesting.........about 3000 on my MB with no issue......did not even notice what you are talking about

 

[guardrail]

guardrail, you might want to take note of the fact that those MB drive shafts had a flaw. They did not recess the bolt hole on the chain case side like it is on the OEM shafts. This causes the stock bolt to bottom out and caused me a lot of headache before I found out. I had the bolt back out which blew a hole threw the chain case. Had to walk because of it. It also explains why I stripped a couple of those bolts. I originally thought I damaged them during assembly.

I actually forgot about that. Luckily I noticed it when I first installed it. I just cut a little off the end of the bolt and cleaned up the threads with a triangular file. I always use loctite on that stuff. I had that bolt come loose on my rxwarrior and cause a lot of damage.

 

[DigitalFusion]

I ended up using red on mine cause it kept backing out. I might be replacing the track this year, so wish me luck.

 

[Viper_Dave]

Get a little heat on that bolt before you try to loosen it. One of those small butane torches right on the bolt head for about 10 seconds and it'll come loose. I use red loctite all the time at work, and heat is the only way I've found that works.