It will provide a great driveshaft polevault video though.....

Consider the force with which the safety loop must contend. Nuff said.

Lee

 

your driveshaft weighs what?...about 40 lbs at most. when they break it usually isn't some catastrophic event like you'd think. usually they just fall. sometimes when they shear there is a little force behind it.

I completely twisted one off like it was a pretzel. It sounded like I had dropped a brick from about 5 feet off the ground. just a large thud.

I had another one break on a launch coming out of a corner. u-joint failed and the shaft popped off the transmission tailpiece. once again, it just dropped and hit the ground.

that wire looks to be 1/4" to 3/8" thick. those things can take 500+ lbs of static load quite easily. I think it could easily hand the forces, even if it was a shock force.