Such a nice driveshaft........OUCH!

[surveytech]

Check out this drive shaft that was just removed from one of our dumptrucks..........YIKES!



Not sure how it happened but it isnt pretty is it?

[Lone Wolf]

I've been working on trucks for 22 years and i've never seen one that bad.

[BrwBier]

Having been an auto tech for more than 20 years, I can say that it will cause some vibration.

[big earl]

in my professional opinion beeing a mechanic for twenty years and a dump truck driver now, I can honnestly say, I think you need a new drive line, that one kinda sucks

[Ma3tt]

"Hey don't get your driveshaft in a knot!"

[madjack]

...an example of an irresistable force meeting an immovable object...................................

[Gaston]

last time I saw one that bad it was from a loaded dump that tried to pull a loaded cement truck out of 12" of fresh concrete. The cement truck driver 's foot slipped off the clutch petal and he backed into a fresh pour at a runway project

[rbeemer]

Driveshaft, this is Transmission.....
Come on Baby...Let's do the twist

[Nitetimes]

Nice job, I'm really impressed. I've never even done one that bad!!

[angib]

Hey, anything can get bent! I was working in Halifax, NS in the 80s when a tug from the Russian fishing fleet was towed in without steering. He had run astern onto an ice floe and twisted his rudder shaft about 30-45 degrees - and this was a solid steel shaft maybe 18" in diameter......

But that wasn't as scary as what came next. Gorbachev had just decreed that the Russian merchant navy should go dry and D-Day happened while the tug was in dock - in addition to drinking up the whole of the tug's generous vodka supply, they also shipped plenty more in to wash the first lot down.

Andrew

[stjohn]

I think I could fix-it

[bledsoe3]

I had one that was a little worse than that one. It twisted completely in two. The place I had build a new drivshaft painted it red and put in on the counter for all to see.

[sledge]

LOL , looks like a Professional Truck Driver to me.... I worked in a Truck Stop Repair shop on I81 for 13 years, And Yes......I have seen them twisted completely into 2 pieces. By a Concrete Cowboy, trying to slide the Tandams that he forgot to Oil or Lube for like......NEVER ! And after it broke the front piece started slapping around till it broke all the Air Lines and Pig Tail Lines and completely shut the truck down....... Yeah.... the good ol' days when times were Bad.

[madjack]

Sledge, I once watched a JB HUNT driver try so hard to slide the very stuck tandems onna fully loaded trailer that he ended up sliding them completely out from under the trailer and ripping the rear door frame off, spilling little kids clothing all over the parking lot...a lotta laughs and comments on that one...fershizzle
madjack

[asianflava]

Those JB Hunt drivers! They are the butt of the trucking world's jokes. I'm not even a trucker and I've heard many a story about them.