Driveshaft carnage

[Matt_E]

Happened while I was riding today. All of a sudden I didn't go anywhere.
I thought I had stripped the splines.
When I unbolted the pump, it just about smashed my face in. At that point I realized something was off.

 

[Motorheads5]

Look's like it had been broke for a while.

 

[Matt_E]

I don't know anything about metal, so what makes you think it has been broke for a while?

 

[MADMAT]

It probably froze!

 

[Matt_E]

Lol

 

[Motorheads5]

I don't know anything about metal, so what makes you think it has been broke for a while?

Half of it is darker discolored you can see the new break is brighter new looking. Get a brass 90 deg. elbow before you put that pump back in and ditch the steel ace haedeware plumber fitting lol

 

[Matt_E]

Bahahahaaaa!

That fitting is awesome. :biggrin:
It's been in there for a few years now, but you're right - it's time to change that thing.

I am considering going to a mag pump. We'll see.

 

[ATS_Aaron]

DON"T throw the parts away.

Heat the front half and bend it 90 degrees. That gives you an awesome midshaft coupler tool. The back half can be welded to to a plate (or a trailer hitch) and becomes a good prop holder for repitching.

Aaron

 

[sflsurfrider]

is that a WSM shaft by chizzance?

 

[Matt_E]

OEM as far as I know.
Would there be a way to tell if it's OEM?

 

[McDog]

Ice chunks in the pump are a bitch.

 

[jetpilot08]

I see that new APT total loss is working quite well. :laugh2:

 

[#ZERO]

You should have been using the impeller rubber nose cone to keep shaft from breaking in that area. :biggrin:

DON"T throw the parts away.

Heat the front half and bend it 90 degrees. That gives you an awesome midshaft coupler tool. The back half can be welded to to a plate (or a trailer hitch) and becomes a good prop holder for repitching.

Aaron

That's a great idea. :thinkerg:

 

[Matt_E]

The impeller nose cone was on there, right where it should have been. I just took it off after I took the pump out.

 

[WFO Speedracer]

Looks like you have been shafted.................

 

[Matt_E]

I'll get shafted again when I try to get that impeller off.

 

[McDog]

I'll get shafted again when I try to get that impeller off.

Dang that will suck. Good luck figuring that out.

 

[ryan]

just weld a nut on the back side of the shaft. lock it in the vice. have a vibration before it snaped? i bet you did. check your motor alinement. this will snap drive shafts also.

 

[Freakrider]

That's cold water metal sheer or Jetworks high torque motor...better call Art and ask how to reduce the power some...:bump:

 

[Matt_E]

just weld a nut on the back side of the shaft. lock it in the vice. have a vibration before it snaped? i bet you did. check your motor alinement. this will snap drive shafts also.

No vibration, except for the half second before.
I was fairly confident in the alignment, but you can bet I'll double-check it.