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Old Mar 20, 2009 | 12:00 AM
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OMG, I bet you **** your pants when that happened at 130MPH. I would.
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Old Mar 20, 2009 | 02:31 AM
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oh yeah me and my girlfriend did lol i was racing with her in the passenger seat and actually i had it going in no time i went to our local driveshaft shop custom clutch and driveshaft they do great work had two driveshafts built tig welded the case and had to go the the junk yard to get the wire ends that were ground off on the highway lol and soldered those on put a new adapter on that bpowell686 had and went with it. what sucks the most is i went and raced a ss camero the night i got it back together he has a 402 built by hke in it and i won but at the end of the race i spun the rear driveshaft out of it. actually i broke all 4 bolts on the rear nuckle where the univesal joint bolts to the rearend so if there is a badass nuckle availible please let me know i need to fine tune all the little things now
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Old Mar 20, 2009 | 03:07 AM
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Your lucky nothing bad happened at those speeds. I've heard of vehicles flipping when they snapped a driveshaft at those speeds.
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Old Mar 20, 2009 | 07:31 AM
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Now you know why there's $950.00 driveshafts out there!
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Old Apr 6, 2009 | 07:02 PM
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Ouch dude,thats not gonna grow back LOL yea good drive shafts are money well spent at speed.....
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Old Apr 6, 2009 | 10:35 PM
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Drive shaft Loop in your future I hope???
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Old Apr 7, 2009 | 04:13 PM
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F a driveshaft loop... he needs a transfer case loop...
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Old Apr 7, 2009 | 07:47 PM
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That sucks dude.
Not to preach or anything but, next time leave the girl at home.
You're very lucky thats all that happened.
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