Broken drive shaft - Toyota GR86, 86, FR-S and Subaru BRZ Forum & Owners Community

blsfrs · 01-22-2022, 03:06 PM

Fortunately it failed on the dyno and not on the road. One year old DDS aluminum drive shaft. No warning NVM. Tech said the bolts had worked loose. Hard way to learn a lesson: Check and retorque bolts.

Code Monkey · 01-22-2022, 03:42 PM

Did you reuse nuts and bolts?

Ashikabi · 01-22-2022, 05:16 PM

Use blue locktite

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Joon525 · 01-22-2022, 05:19 PM

Damn, what does the underside of the car look like? Any major damage?

stacyu18 · 01-22-2022, 07:54 PM

looks like to me its a bad driveshaft no way loose bolts cause that but where is the carrier bearing at?

humfrz · 01-22-2022, 08:49 PM

I'll go with the "bad driveshaft" theory.

Is that blood all over the floor? -

EAGLE5 · 01-22-2022, 09:34 PM

Yikes! I have a stock driveshaft if for free. You just gotta pay for shipping from California.

demasrv · 01-23-2022, 12:20 AM

Oooof. The red stuff on the floor makes it look like the driveshaft died a horrible bloody death.

How's the underside of the car look?

blsfrs · 01-23-2022, 10:35 AM

First of all, I'm not answering any questions about possible blood on the floor.

There was no damage to the underside of the car. The tuner shut it down as soon as he heard/felt it go.

PTuning already sourced a replacement shaft. Thanks for the offer

It's a one piece DDS aluminum shaft.

Yes, I reused the bolts.

And yes to the Loctite.

I'll add checking driveshaft to my pre-track check list.

soundman98 · 01-23-2022, 11:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by blsfrs

First of all, I'm not answering any questions about possible blood on the floor.

...pending litigation and all that

i'm sure tommy had it coming.

Grady · 01-23-2022, 02:48 PM

I bet when it went the drivers seat got totaled!

FrickingReallySlow · 01-24-2022, 02:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Code Monkey

Did you reuse nuts and bolts?

Subaru notes these as one time use items but I never understood why, if its not rusty/striped what's the mechanical reason they can't be reused?

Sapphireho · 01-24-2022, 04:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by blsfrs

It's a one piece DDS aluminum shaft.

Looks like a two piece shaft to me!?

Code Monkey · 01-24-2022, 08:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FrickingReallySlow

Subaru notes these as one time use items but I never understood why, if its not rusty/striped what's the mechanical reason they can't be reused?

Maybe the bolts are TTY?

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blsfrs Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2018 Drives: 2013 frs base Location: central Virginia Posts: 1,107 Thanks: 1,719 Thanked 905 Times in 471 Posts Mentioned: 12 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	First of all, I'm not answering any questions about possible blood on the floor. There was no damage to the underside of the car. The tuner shut it down as soon as he heard/felt it go. PTuning already sourced a replacement shaft. Thanks for the offer It's a one piece DDS aluminum shaft. Yes, I reused the bolts. And yes to the Loctite. I'll add checking driveshaft to my pre-track check list.

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