07-20-2015, 01:40 PM
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Originally Posted by 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.  |
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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