Front Drive Shaft Update

[TCMColorado]

100% gets pinched. The rubber gets extruded by the pressure and thins out. Eventually it develops a tear which centrifugal force takes advantage of and finishes the boot off.

This happens on stock or lifted trucks. Just happens faster on lifted because you live closer to the extrusion point.

Pinching of the boot is a serious design flaw by Ineos/Dana/Magna and should have been easily identified during development. An engineering 101 screw up of the highest order. Excessive flexing of the boot while also unacceptable at least would have been less easy to identify as an problem. Dana or Magna had to raise this as an issue and Ineos chose to do nothing and proceed with production anyway.

 

[Dokatd]

Pinching of the boot is a serious design flaw by Ineos/Dana/Magna and should have been easily identified during development. An engineering 101 screw up of the highest order. Excessive flexing of the boot while also unacceptable at least would have been less easy to identify as an problem. Dana or Magna had to raise this as an issue and Ineos chose to do nothing and proceed with production anyway.

Dana is not responsible. Ineos along with Carraro did not set pinion right for the drive shaft angles. Tipping the pinion up a few degrees would have solved the problem. Reducing your stock shock length by 1" would also solve the problem, but reduce off-road performance a bit of course.

Ineos could literally back out of this by doing a shock recall to reduce max travel and 99% of owners wouldn't know any better.

And those with super low caster numbers may never have a problem with the drive shaft, but they are accepting the poor steering characteristics.