370z Driveshaft Melted

dP3NGU1N

There's your problem... Looks like your drive shaft had a paper towel roll as a core.

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Rusty

That's a cardboard tube inside the carbon fiber. It's for support when wrapping the carbon fiber into a tube. And for sound dampening.

That shaft looks like the ones at work that have failed. The carbon fiber driveshafts at work last about 3~4 years before they come apart.

Factory aluminum driveshafts have the cardboard tube too. I found out the easy way. Rockcrawling with my PowerWagon.

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dP3NGU1N

Yeah, I was just having a laugh. I doubt it would have helped much if they used extruded steel (thin gauge) as the core.

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Rusty

You should what some of the ones from work look like when they fail. 600hp electric motor, 14ft long, 8" diameter carbon fiber driveshaft, right angle gear reduction gearbox. Spinning a 18ft diameter, 10 blade up-draft fan. Most of the time. They fail in the winter. On another note. All of our street light poles at work are carbon fiber.

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