Breaking Tail Shafts

[stinger]

18 months ago I had the sliding spline on the rear tail shaft replaced. A few weeks after that while 4WDriving the sliding spine part broke between the splines & where it is welded to the pipe. The funning thing about the break was that it was like someone had cut it with a laser cutter at a perfect 90o to shaft with nary another mark on shaft??? Universal Drive Shafts who did the orginal work replaced it at no cost to me. In my uneducated (in metal workings) mind it looked like fault during manufacture perhaps????

Now since then done all manner of things with vehicle and then on Sunday while climbing a rocky ledge.... same thing. It does not let go with an almighty bang, usually a bit of bump and then car does not go so well....

Pull rear tailshaft out to find another perfect cut... tow it up a few hills and drive around in front wheel drive while getting it fixed.

This time I have been asked to pay for parts only (still $130) to fix it as the owner cannot explain it and cannot say whether it was fault in product or caused by me. I am not so happy once, yeah hard to explain, twice, identical situation... I am starting to wonder...

My question which has taken a while to get to has anyone else had this experience or any thing similar???

The shop owner states that he does not bother even trying to talk to manufacture just wears the cost himself, me I would be asking questions, that maybe that is just me...

I know my car is extreme, 6" lift, 35s and diff locks but generally I take it pretty easy so that I do not break things and I was taking it easy this time too....
Cheers,
Stinger

[Sic Lux]

i found that strange when i heard about it saturday not once but twice it'd have to be a design faut you would think maybe pay for the parts this time and if it does it again and he doesn't as questions to his supplier how can he fix the design fault after that i'd be going somewhere else. maybe look into a custom more beefier setup

[4x4Monkey]

find oiut who the manufacture is and go to them
Ya gotta realy kick up a stink and see how goodf their customer skills are lol
dealing witha pissed off customer

[dow50r]

Get another shaft...is it something special or what?? ounds like their mig is not turned up enough, and there is no penno on the welds...
Andrew

[stinger]

It is not the welds that are breaking but the actual solid part of the shaft just before the splines???