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Yup...sure did. Returning home from a 6,000klm Yukon trip, started off as a little tick in 5th gear when it wasn't under load. (balanced enertia) Gradualy started doing it in 4th, 3rd, and so on to the point where it was a constant bang. At the timeI thought it was my tranny, and I was willing todrive her to her grave. After 22 hours of straight riding it finaly snapped about a 1/2 hour from home. Once again, I thought it was tranny. I was relieved to see the universal had snapped when we pulled her apart.
I had symptons prior to my tripwhich I didn't notice until after it was fixed. After fixing it, what was missing was a kind of a feeling..vibration.. through the bike. On my usual route home from work, I take a curve that has a bit of a dip to it and since I replaced the shaft this feeling had disappeard. Hard to describe it....sort of a viabration and a sound I can't describe, but very very subtle. At the time I just thought of it as normal as it was intermittent, like I said, where I really notice the difference was on that one curve coming home from work. I will definitely recognize it again though. I had no problems with the splines. Threw in another shaft and I was off to Florida. I believe age was the problem with mine, well over 300,000klm on it.
Kyle