Question: How many have broken Input shafts ?
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on a 48RE or an Allison
?LOL..i have made a mess of the flywheel and flex plate but never messed up any of the shafts!
?LOL..i have made a mess of the flywheel and flex plate but never messed up any of the shafts!
Stock shafts , the idea of this thread is to see the odds of re-using stock input shafts ?
I have a broken input shaft on my 02, although it has a suspected 343,000 miles on it I don't know if I broke it or if it was already broke.
I broke my flex plate, I would think the flexplate would give before you broke an input shaft???? Unless you are using one of those big dollar ones???
wrong, i broke my input shaft(stock) last tuesday. flex plate is fine. it broke when the converter locked at the top of 2nd gear on the strip.
That shaft should never have had the relieve machined back in it. That's an exact copy of the factory mistake. It never would have broken if it had been omited.
There are good stock shafts and bad ones. You won't know till yours breaks. If and when it breaks ( stock shaft ) you will then see how well it was cast and how deep the heat treating was absorbed.
On the Allison stock shafts, they will always snap at the machined relieve.
On the Allison stock shafts, they will always snap at the machined relieve.
How messy does a broken input shaft get?
Is it the kind of deal were you can just pull the shaft and replace the thing, or does it start taking out other hard parts when it lets go?
Is it the kind of deal were you can just pull the shaft and replace the thing, or does it start taking out other hard parts when it lets go?
