Heads up .. Flaming River

[RPitts]

Man this is scary! I have 3 FR joints and shafts. They are stainless wonder if those are any better?

[KPC67]

Well Crap, I have a FR column and the dd shaft and universal joints. I bought them 5 or 6 years ago to do mock up, kind of a piss off to have to buy new parts before I even use them!

[Flash68]

Originally Posted by bret

Is Flaming River actually aware of the problem?

Originally Posted by Sheck44

If Flaming River had of taken this more seriously than they have then I would not have posted this, but since they are shrugging off responsibility and not taking this seriously then it is my duty to bring this to light ...

Appears they contacted and gave FR a chance to deal with it properly.

[travmon]

Originally Posted by Flash68

Appears they contacted and gave FR a chance to deal with it properly.

What does that mean ? I am going to go walk around the shop to see how many we have on cars in mock-up stage..I hope they plan on some sort of recall or they will get thrown WAY under the bus..This isn't the stuff you want to fail !!!

[Schwartz Perf]

We've used a lot of FR columns and haven't had any issues.. For what that's worth. However, haven't used their joints or shafts. Borgeson all the way!

-Dale

[Vince@Meanstreets]

14 lbs ft on that allen could snap that joint? crazy

We usually mark the joint on the shaft then use a drill to make a dimple the shaft for the set screw to sit in. Allen wrench tight and tighted the nut with a little blue lock tight. I never had a issue.

Now them Woodard shafts are the ones to use.

[Sheck44]

Vince ... actually it snapped at 6 lbs, it is my understanding that its supposed to be torqued to 14" lbs

Just to follow up, I will be speaking to my buddy this afternoon and will get you folks the more 'detailed' response from FR

Cheers
Steve

[raustinss]

Hey sheck44
Did you make it down to dasilva motorsports open house last weekend...I was there first thing. had some beautiful stuff going on. Yes I know this is off topic btw

[64pontiac]

Hey guys, I try and avoid stuff like this, but just to clarify..... you keep posting 14" lbs.... that would mean inch pounds no? ' is foot, " is inch..... if it happened at 6 inch pounds there had to be something seriously compromised with that half of the joint like an underlying crack from broaching or something? Thats nuts, good thing it happened in the shop.

I don't doubt it happened, we have seen failures in almost everything over the years right? It can happen to the best of things, from our small market of parts in the hot rod world, up to parts on commercial airliners, or ignitions in mass produced cars..... I know its a safety concern, and Im not brushing off the severity of this.

M 2 cents is, we have been using Flaming river on everything and have had no issues that I can relate to the product.... Ive asked the joints to do some angles they dont like, and had some binding, but never anything like that. Looking at the billet joints,from a production standpoint I can't understand how that happened, unless it was related to the broaching process. Hopefully it gets corrected.

[camcojb]

Originally Posted by Sheck44

Vince ... actually it snapped at 6 lbs, it is my understanding that its supposed to be torqued to 14" lbs

Just to follow up, I will be speaking to my buddy this afternoon and will get you folks the more 'detailed' response from FR

Cheers
Steve

Inch lbs. or foot lbs.?