The prop shaft in the Terra scorcher might as well be made out of spaghetti
Maiden voyage and I ploughed it in to a kerb, and the prop shaft bent.
Any one know if there is a decent after market one that is stronger than wet spaghetti?
I’d suggest that the strength of the concrete kerb is a bigger factor than that of the propshaft. – There will always be something that breaks if you drive into a concrete kerb at speed.
I used to have a Terra scorcher / Thunder dragon when I first started racing in the 90’s and never managed to break the prop shafts despite, running motors that were far more powerful than the standard 540. It’s normally the chassis and front bulkhead that are the weakest link on those cars, The pivots for the suspension arms, and shocks would occasionally bend as well. Wishbones didn’t break but would stretch and become deformed with repeated impacts.
I’m not aware of anybody that makes a stronger propshaft for that car, but it is pretty unusual for them to break. I would just replace it (if you can’t straighten it well enough to avoid vibration) but check your chassis, because in order to transfer axial load to the propshaft in a head on impact the chassis needs to deflect a lot, which it won’t usually do without breaking. There will probably be cracks around the screw heads where the front gearbox attaches.
The most important mod on those cars was to the battery holders, I used to add elastic bands as otherwise the things would flex and the batterys would fly out.
