The BAD Influence
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I've known that replacing the front drive shaft is highly recommended after a lift. I did install the exhaust spacers, but I think it's time for a new one. What say you?
Can you not just replace that little boot for now?
If they don't sell it separately, surely you could find a secondhand boot somewhere.
Raised our jeep from 2.5" to 4.5" about a year ago. 6,000 miles since then. Decided I would risk it and see how long the OEM shaft would last. 6k is evidently the answer.
The only warning was a small vibration that lasted about 90 seconds before it blew at 65mph. No grease slinging prior to failure, checked every 500-1000 miles. Very lucky it didn't take out the T-case, transmission or exhaust...
Removed the 4 bolts from the front of the shaft on the highway, while laying in snow. Ruined our day of wheeling, but everyone was safe thankfully.
I'm a cheap bastard and I try to get away with the least expensive options often, but I recommend doing to shaft right now.
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What would that do? The cv joint is shot, replacing a slip boot won’t do anything.
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Wanna race?I’ve had multiple factory driveline failures and they all gave warning long before complete failure. In fact, I never had one “blow up” while driving.
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Poof! I don't care if it was a unicorn dick, that shit was funny!
Raised our jeep from 2.5" to 4.5" about a year ago. 6,000 miles since then. Decided I would risk it and see how long the OEM shaft would last. 6k is evidently the answer.
The only warning was a small vibration that lasted about 90 seconds before it blew at 65mph. No grease slinging prior to failure, checked every 500-1000 miles. Very lucky it didn't take out the T-case, transmission or exhaust...
Removed the 4 bolts from the front of the shaft on the highway, while laying in snow. Ruined our day of wheeling, but everyone was safe thankfully.
I'm a cheap bastard and I try to get away with the least expensive options often, but I recommend doing to shaft right now.
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I’ve had multiple factory driveline failures and they all gave warning long before complete failure. In fact, I never had one “blow up” while driving.
I had this exact same thing happen. No previous noise or vibration. One day on high way I got a slight vibration I thought was the pavement surface actually changing a few seconds later kaboom... fire and parts every where.. nah wasn’t that bad but did only give about a min of slight vibration before it went.. I even changed lanes because I figured it was the rd