Viermalvier.de, das Geländewagenportal Forums Marken talk Land Rover ...und ich mach mir Sorgen wegen nem "klonck"....

G`day all, I had a bad prop day last week and here is the result, I have never seen one twist like this before.





I am not sure how this can happen, I suspect there must have been a small dent or stress raiser in the shaft to let go like this, admitedly I was at 11psi with a rear locker, with a chipped TD5 at about peak torque, landing after hitting a small clump crap in 3rd low, the landing was quite hard, but onto soft sand, so the stress ahould not have been to high going back up the drive line as the rear wheels would have also spun in the sand to some degree and not grabbed perect traction.

Talking to a freind out here who used to race a 4.6lt 110 has never snapped a prop shaft whist racing with a far more powerfull engine and subjecting his race car to more abuse than I could ever do.

I have temporarily fitted an old V8 shaft to keep me on the road, but the V8 shaft is only about 2/3 the thickness of the TD5 one, so am a bit worried about damaging this one as well.

My 1st thought was to just get another TD5 shaft and throw it in, but the question is after doing this once should I go for an up rated shaft or is this just a 1 off incident that wont happen again to a standard shaft.

My other problem is getting an up rated shaft out here in Dubai, I am going to see if I can get a heavier duty tube fitted and balanced locally, but I doubt I am going to be able to get one made locally, so it means getting one shipped in from the UK which is probably going to be quite expensive.

Any thoughts on idea on how it failed like this and if it could happen again would be greatly appreciated.