2013 Broken Drive Shaft? What is your "Build Date?

[jdw1]

Just what it says.

If your Drive Shaft has broke, what is your build date, is there some commonality here or is it just random.

It might be helpful for those who are about to break a Drive Shaft!

Your build date is on the data plate on the side of the tunnel.
This might get interesting and maybe helpful.
I cant start it, i am still riding and old 2012!

 

[Big D rmk700]

Need to some how know when the drive shafts were assembled!! Not when the sled was thrown together. I would like to know how many new pro's were produced and % have broke.

 

[jdw1]

Need to some how know when the drive shafts were assembled!! Not when the sled was thrown together. I would like to know how many new pro's were produced and % have broke.

My thought was that if it was only the first built sleds that where affected or if there is any rhyme nor reason as to when the sleds were built.

May be i didn't make that clear in my original post, sorry.

I just thought it might help to determine who might have a bad drive shaft before they hauled there sleds a 1000 miles to find out.

 

[clyde62960]

Drive Shaft Glue

Just found out that Polaris had a problem with the glue mixture that was used on some sleds when they put the drive shafts together
You can flip your sled on its side and looking at the drive shaft there is a small weep hole on both sides --there is a small amount of excess gray glue --if the glue is hard you are good to go --if the glue is soft you have a problem

 

[Cascade Addiction]

Just found out that Polaris had a problem with the glue mixture that was used on some sleds when they put the drive shafts together
You can flip your sled on its side and looking at the drive shaft there is a small weep hole on both sides --there is a small amount of excess gray glue --if the glue is hard you are good to go --if the glue is soft you have a problem

"if the glue is hard you are god to go"....you just make it farther into the backcountry before it breaks, several posts on here with guys whose glue was hard and still broke, just happens after 150-200 miles seems like

 

[Geezer]

polaris glue

Pawpaw where did you get that information from?

 

[Cascade Addiction]

here on snowest

Pawpaw where did you get that information from?

I read it on here from a couple guys stating that their glue was hard and still broke, I don't remember which exact thread it was now that there are so many, but there are a few making that statement. I have also read posts from guys with 7 miles to over 200 miles that have had failures, I too figured that if you made it past about 30 miles and your glue was hard that you were out of the woods but that does not seem to be the case. I am considering swapping shafts with my 12' as the 12' will now be the non-turbo backup. Waiting on my fix kit to show up to decide which route to take after seeing the kit in person.

 

[skibreeze]

One of my buddies broke his shaft and the glue is hard, so that is not true Clyde.

 

[prorider13]

this is more about notproperly preparing the sufaces on the mating metals and not a glue issue.

 

[TGitt]

this is more about notproperly preparing the sufaces on the mating metals and not a glue issue.

I can agree with that. I also think that If there were more surface area for the two pieces to bond together we might not be having this discussion. My old man used to work for what is now ATK in utah. They would. Build rockets and a bunch of stuff like that for NASA and what not. We were talking about the glue on the drive shaft and he said all the stages of the rockets motor were pretty much glued together. They were even carrying nuclear war heads. I don't think try would have glued it together if there was a good chance that a rocket carrying nuclear warheads would fail. At his bonding class they said if you prepare it correctly it works better than welding. You have more surface area bonded to each other than just welding at the seam.

So say instead of the end cap only going in the shaft a quarter of an inch, Polaris has it go in 1.5 in, and prepared the surfaces correctly by grit blasting of some sort, I dare say we aren't having this epidemic.

Also my shaft broke with 40 miles, I removed my mfg. date sticker, but I remember it was sometime in August.