I have a 95 s10 4.3 5 speed and it keeps breaking drive shafts everytime i wheel it whats wrong with it?
(2010-05-30 19:08:56) 1. Says: there is like a bearing cage that holds 6 ball bearings inside the drive shaft that locks it in place and that cage keeps busting and i have no clue why my first drive shaft broke that way then i put another one in it and that day i went wheelin it did it again the same exact way and i cant figure out whats wrong with it. does anybody know2. Says: Stop beating the crap out of your truck...3. Says: Thousands of Chevy S-10s drive down the highways of America every day with no problems whatsoever. If this happens every time you go "wheelin" then you are obviously abusing the vehicle and asking it to do things it was not designed to do.4. Says: you mean the u-joints don,t you? check those little roller bearing needles in the caps. if you lose 1 then it will go bad. i,am assuming your talking about the drive shaft that goes toward the rear end.5. Says: The thing with 6 balls is called a constant velocity (cv) joint, and is different than a universal joint.It don't know enough about the design of the axle on that truck to give you a definite answer. If you are going off road in a stock S10, and are not doing extreme rock climbing and stuff like that, you probably shouldn't be having trouble. The first joint that broke might just have been old and worn. It happens. The second one makes me think it was a cheap or inferior cv joint. CV joints have been on good wheeling trucks for a long time and they perform well (Land Cruisers and Jeeps, et al). I have never heard of a chronic problem whereby cv joint spontaneously and repeatedly eat it, other than ones that were crappy to begin with. I imagine that if the turn stops were grossly maladjusted or missing, that might cause undue stress on the joints, but one would expect that to be more of a problem with a u-joint set-up. When you replace it make sure you buy a NEW joint. Be sure that it isn't a re-manufactured one (yes, they make those).
And - if you are hot-dogging, you have to expect breakage of stock drive line components. Trannies, axles, clutches, differentials, etc. were all designed for mild 4-wheel drive applications only. Welcome to the off-road real world. Tag: I have a 95 s10 4.3 5 speed and it keeps breaking drive shafts everytime i wheel it whats wrong with it?