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i keep losing rear drive shafts! helpp - 7/11/2008 7:55:40 PM   
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Status: offline 		ok, everytime my savage wheelies, when the front wheels touch again i lose a rear drive shaft, idk if they stress and bend there way out or what. but everytime i do a wheelie i end up in front wheel drive. but it does do some nasty front wheel drive burn outs

but why do i keep losing rear drive shafts?!?
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RE: i keep losing rear drive shafts! helpp - 7/11/2008 7:59:04 PM   
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Status: offline 		I assume your talking about the rear dogbone, is it breaking off, like snapping? or just plopping on the ground?

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RE: i keep losing rear drive shafts! helpp - 7/11/2008 8:01:28 PM   
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Status: offline 		the shaft that goes from the transmission to the rear dif.

i always find it like 3 feet from where my truck was lol. it just like falls out of the truck../ lol

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RE: i keep losing rear drive shafts! helpp - 7/11/2008 8:02:31 PM   
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Status: offline 		I think your using the wrong dogbone, the rear dogbone should be longer than the front.

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RE: i keep losing rear drive shafts! helpp - 7/11/2008 8:04:33 PM   
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Status: offline 		Yep sounds like wrong size or your bearings are worn letting it pop out. I would say wrong ones though because tehy fit pretty tight.

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RE: i keep losing rear drive shafts! helpp - 7/11/2008 8:04:41 PM   
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Status: offline 		nope. im not unless the truck came from the factory with the wrong one...which i guess could be a possibility.

haha we're like going back and forth between threads lol

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RE: i keep losing rear drive shafts! helpp - 7/11/2008 8:06:00 PM   
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Status: offline 		Are you able to put it back in without taking the chassis off?

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RE: i keep losing rear drive shafts! helpp - 7/11/2008 8:08:06 PM   
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Status: offline 		This is what you need.
http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXDLD6&P=7

And I think this is what keeps falling out.
http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXDLD7&P=7

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RE: i keep losing rear drive shafts! helpp - 7/12/2008 2:56:21 AM   
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Status: offline 		You need one of these. You wont lose this or break it thats for sure. My LRP was snapping the stockers like tooth picks. This has not even twisted and has held up perfect.

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RE: i keep losing rear drive shafts! helpp - 7/12/2008 3:09:50 PM   
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Status: offline 		Where can I get one of those dog bones twomanytoys?

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RE: i keep losing rear drive shafts! helpp - 7/12/2008 7:52:50 PM   
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You need one of these. You wont lose this or break it thats for sure. My LRP was snapping the stockers like tooth picks. This has not even twisted and has held up perfect.
He's not snapping them. He has the wrong size dogbone in and its falling out...then he tries to put it back in, well, then it falls out again lol.

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