[Re: pics of the shorn shaft]

[losinit@usa.net (Cathy Boyko)]

"John Van Vuren" <veedublu@prod.net> wrote:
A buddy of mine once broke a cv shaft in the same spot...    was in MY
bone-stock '82 Sportruck  :(

Recipe for broken cv axle:

3500rpms
dump clutch

In other words, unless you're abusing the snot out of your car you should=
n't
be breaking cv shafts (at least that's my opinion)

John


We do worse to ours, and no broken shafts, and actually I never see VWs w=
ith
broken shafts at the strip. Denny's been launching at 4000-5000 rpm so we=

should be snapping them. Maybe you bought Honda shafts, they break them a=
ll
the time (saw one guy burn through two in one day, then he ran out of par=
ts to
borrow and went home on the flatbed...) Having said that, I've got the
guaranteed for life Canadian tire ones anyway, so cost of breakage isn't =
an
issue. But we do toast clutches.

But if what I see is typical, there's something up with your car.

Cathy