fastnblu

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

AKlowriderZ71

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

stevenc

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

AKlowriderZ71

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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.

fastnblu

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

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

kbracing96

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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.

fastnblu

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

Or again, more harm than good maybe.

kbracing96

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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.

fastnblu

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Gotcha, I know some rods are shot peened.

AKlowriderZ71

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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!