Yup that sucks. My buddy did that in his jeep climbing a tree stump.

 

Well, that sucks. How'd you do it?

 

burnout

 

i snapped my carrier while trying to do a burnout haha!

i never broke an axle shaft! thats impressive! lol

 

Sucks man.
I am surprised I haven't broken one yet with the way I drive on and off road.

 

I broke mine in the same place a few months ago, it was more sheered off than snapped in half but either way it is sh*tty go to the JY I picked up a new one for 50 bucks

 

Seems like they always break there. My buddies jeeps shaft broke there too.

 

its the weakest part of the shaft i think. right where it necks down again and the splines don't help either.

 

Note to self: No more burnouts!!!










...not like I could do one anyway! lol

 

holy carnage batman!!

 

I would have thought that the shaft would have twisted before it snapped at the slipjoint just because the shaft is all aluminum and that section seems to be stronger. I guess I was way off on that thought though

 

i guess i got lucky! well see in the coming months how mine holds up...

 

Was that a 7.5" rear end? Or did you happen to get some wheel hop by chance? I ask, because I know a guy putting down over 400RWHP with his 8.8 28 spline, and he's only broke 1 axle shaft because of a massive amount of wheel hop on launch.

 

Probably revving it to redline and dumping the hell out of the clutch.

 

Don't the 8.8 and the 7.5 have the same axle shafts, or am I mistaken on this?

 

Yup, 28 spline 8.8 shaft same as 7.5

 

That's what I was thinking.
The shafts, bearings, and gear sets are the same, only difference is the diffs.

 

If by gears you mean ring and pinion, no. The 8.8 and 7.5 is the size of the ring, hence the weaker 7.5.
Shafts and everything out from the pumpkin are the same....tubes, bearings, sahfts, seals, etc.

 

And people say the 3.0 is weak. Haha... that's some pretty nice carnage.

 

there was no wheel hop. i just rev it up to about 4 and let out on the clutch briskley and thats what happen. it did it real easy. that pavement that the carnage is sitting on thats what i was doing the burnout on. that pavement was actually kind of sticky.

 

Ouch, that sucks!!

 

nice one

 

Yeah I don't know why I typed gears, Just a got carried away I guess.

 

If you are going to do something, do a good job at it. Nicely done.