Sheered swing axle

28 posts · joined Apr 2013 · 6 Jan 2017, 10:28 pm

#1032815

I recently had a sheered axle - at the nut! Car was sitting for 3 days when it happened. I found the nut about 2 meters from the car - so clearly popped off with some energy. Axles are about 18 months old. I think form Pierside. Engine out put is 120HP and not driven that hard.

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Michael Derwin
63 Karmann Ghia

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478 posts · joined Jan 2005 · 7 Jan 2017, 7:22 pm

#1032844

How lucky you are to have found that nut when you did. Just imagine how bad that sort of a failure could have been. Dave

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2,506 posts · joined Jan 2009 · 7 Jan 2017, 10:37 pm

#1032852

Well it could be one of three things.

1) Poor quality driveshaft
2) Overtorqued nut
3) Not enough spreading of the torque over the shafts thread as there seems very little thread protruding from the end of the nut. Minimum of 1.5 thread pitch spare above the nut.

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