Project: Mall Man

[Boggin]

meh, a couple thousand miles

 

[Boggin]

im gonna call on this truck tonight : http://www.nlclassifieds.com/classifieds/Automotive/CarsandTrucks/GMC/247044

 

[PaleBlue90]

if you have your wheels fully locked and hammer it you will break shafts. my old 89 hadf a d28 and i had 31's with a heavy foot and never broke a shaft.

my d35 in my exploder did that with 31's. but it was my own stupidity. wheels fully locked + 4low +1st gear+ heavy foot= broken shaft

 

[Boggin]

mine is always 4lo and 1st gear {auto} would this have much to do with the shaft breakage?

 

[koda6966]

Oooo if that's anything like the 78 Chevy I had your in for a world of fun. Maybe you'll get lucky and it will have full time REAL 4x4 like my Chevy did. Never should have got rid of him.

Right after we had it dragged off for scrap, along with my brothers ranger every single part, and I mean EVERY single part it needed popped up on craigslist CHEAP including a 130,000 mile 454 big block. I could have had a beast up and running for less than 500 dollars. And I could have had monstrous power from the 454 for another 400. (it had a seized up 350 in it)

 

[crawlin91]

Ive jumped a chop top B2 that sees alot of abuse on stock axles over and over again...never broke a shaft.
I have yet to break a d35 shaft but the Aussie locker will probably see to that.

 

[PaleBlue90]

mine is always 4lo and 1st gear {auto} would this have much to do with the shaft breakage?

only with the steering locked all the way to one side. your bindng up the 4wd that way, i was always taught that when its like that you bind up the drivetrain and the torque puts stress on parts. stress parts = broken parts.

when your trans and transfer case are all in low range your useing your trucks torque by useing lower gears. im shure someone else can explane it better then i can



i hate to see you give up on this. your learning and breaking parts is part of the hands on learning

 

[Mechanickid]

Being that it is an auto and you using low range the shaft had alot of torque put to it. Add that torque plus the unloading and loading or stress from the u-joints at the knuckles binding up because the wheels where turned all the way to the left. Pop..... there goes a shaft.

Don't turn so hard when your flogging on it!

 

[Boggin]

well as far as i remember i wasnt turning so much when this happened but thank you i will remember this for future reference

oh and there isnt much left to her now, with the shaft broke, the transmission is gone and only works very very rarely, the engine got 270k and ticks like batman, and there is abad noise coming from somewhere in the axles/tcase so shes soon gonna take a dump on me for good

 

[koda6966]

Shoulda left it whole and kept it for a parts truck.. might have needed the body someday.

 

[Boggin]

and used the parts for what?

 

[Boggin]

called on this truck tonight

1996 f-150, 5.0, 4x4, manual transfercase and hubs, auto trans[good], 31x10.5s all for 900 bucks and he said he wil be gone for the weekend so next monday i gotta find someone to bring me in an look at her since my dad will be gone, maybe me and mybrother will go in

 

[koda6966]

and used the parts for what?

You never know, you might get another BII someday.

 

[Boggin]

hopefully your right my buddy someday when i got time andmoney

 

[PaleBlue90]

nt a bad lookin f150, u should look for a stick for your next toy