Hey, I'm pretty smart.
What sounds reasonable is u setting down the beer. haha.

 

Ha! I just gave you enough information for you to come to the wrong conclusion. That beer was empty anyways!! Now I have another.

 

Do you think it being a 4wd shaft contributed to type of break since they are shorter?

 

Plenty of 2WD guys on here to tell you about broken shafts.

Tom, you probably don't & won't make enough POWA to need billet. Just run the stockers........



























Oh, wait, that's how mine broke.

 

No, I don't currently.
But I might.

I build overkill into anything, to eliminate failure. Or attempt to do so.

 

I don't think the 4x4 being shorter makes much different, they break all the time in both the 2wd and the 4x4. 2wd might twist a little more, but in the end it will break too.

As far as doing both, the billet shafts are made of 300m steel which is a specially hardened material to start with so cryoing it would probable make it brittle.

 

Kyle, next question, shot peen billet shafts?
Cause won't that stress relieve be helpful?

Or again, more harm than good maybe.

 

i don't think it would hurt, but don't know how much it would help either... hard to say..

Shot peen works best on a cast or forged type material that can have more stressed areas.

 

Gotcha, I know some rods are shot peened.

 

WTF?!? Tom, get backk on track here brother. We are talking about trans output shafts here. Not conn rods. That's a whole other story!