My aluminum driveshaft is getting trashed somehow. HELP!!!

[yellowstang1994]

Underneath my car today and noticed my aluminum driveshaft has some heavy gouging going on in the center of it. I thought it was pretty weird because it already ate my e-brake cable bracket (the one that goes into the handle and holds the right and left cables) and I have no e-brake anymore. I looked up there and it's not touching anything on the tunnel at all. Theres another bracket there too where the right and left e-brake cables run back and it looks like it was hitting there but it is completely away from it. I'm thinking that it's happening when I go over speed bumps and stuff? I guess I need a pinion snubber? And if the center of the driveshaft has a pretty deep groove in it can it throw off the balance of it? Thanks guys

 

[94Blue302GT]

yeah, if you removed the snubber, put it back on, just leave the weight off the bottom.

 

[yellowstang1994]

I didn't remove the snubber, but didn't check to see if it was there though either. I forgot to mention my car is lowered with an eibach pro kit i think it is.

 

[HISSIN50]

You are not the first one to notice this. It also can happen if you have gravitationally-challenged friends in the back of the car.

 

[gcomfx.com]

You are not the first one to notice this. It also can happen if you have gravitationally-challenged friends in the back of the car.

Do you mean? Stop pickin' up the fat ******es at the bar.

 

[Daves94vert]

I had the same thing happen to me at the track when my rear control arm broke on me. Every launch/takeoff from a stoplight would force the driveshaft upward into the tunnel creating a groove gouged in the driveshaft.

 

[94-302-vert]

i had this problem when my rear bushings were shot. New bushings stopped it.