Anyone’s front driveshaft break?

[mike_ct]

Basically stock truck with highway tires, 22k miles, and I baby it. We had some snow here, in my driveway, started it up, pushed 4x4, and about a 50 feet later, marbles in coffee can. It’s been working great and smoothly up until now. No idea why this happened. Found some folks on the facebook group with failures too, one guy said his failed at 10k miles. Wondering how widespread or if it’s a fluke. I’m familiar with the 4x4 system, I own several ram trucks, of different years, and even my plow truck, the front driveshaft went well over 100k

 

[mike_ct]

Since it was basically falling off anyway, I just removed it and drove it to the dealer. Couldn’t schedule a Chrysler roadside tow, because they use local contractors and I “wasn’t in distress on the side of the road” and they had a high number of emergency calls.

 

[Finn5033]

Wow that’s crazy. I have a buddy with a 2019 that I’ve seen redline his truck in 4 high on the lakes pulling his fish house cause he was stuck. I’ve seen him do this a handful of times and he’s never had a problem. Never even had the 4wd over heat issue that some people have had

 

[Willwork4truck]

Could you tell if it was missing any bolts/nuts?
There was a June 2019 recall for the rear driveshafts failing but I haven't found anything for the front...

Ram 1500 Recall Ordered For Broken Driveshafts

Fiat Chrysler (FCA) is recalling more than 17,000 model year 2018-2019 Ram 1500 trucks because the driveshafts may break due to weld problems.

www.carcomplaints.com

 

[SpeedyV]

Basically stock truck with highway tires, 22k miles, and I baby it. We had some snow here, in my driveway, started it up, pushed 4x4, and about a 50 feet later, marbles in coffee can. It’s been working great and smoothly up until now. No idea why this happened. Found some folks on the facebook group with failures too, one guy said his failed at 10k miles. Wondering how widespread or if it’s a fluke. I’m familiar with the 4x4 system, I own several ram trucks, of different years, and even my plow truck, the front driveshaft went well over 100k

Um....no. This is the first I've heard of this!

 

[mike_ct]

Bolts were all tight, and you have to drop the front sway bar to make room to drop the shaft. Still it’s a 2 minutes job for a 15mm socket. I found several people with failed front shafts, some guys have 2021’s with like 2-4K miles. One guy has a rebel and is on his 3rd replacement. Other people say they do donuts and drag launches in 4hi on dry asphalt and no issues.

 

[Willwork4truck]

Bolts were all tight, and you have to drop the front sway bar to make room to drop the shaft. Still it’s a 2 minutes job for a 15mm socket. I found several people with failed front shafts, some guys have 2021’s with like 2-4K miles. One guy has a rebel and is on his 3rd replacement. Other people say they do donuts and drag launches in 4hi on dry asphalt and no issues.

Very weird... (I mean that info, as well as myself).