Bad or neglected U-joints, locked up rear end, extreme stress, extreme torque, sudden and complete stop of rear wheels while at high rpm.
Severe imbalance condition, damage by road hazard.
Overloading
None. Every engine has a drive shaft, which connects to the transmission, and ultimately causes the wheels to turn.
Balance
Your drive shaft won't go out it will either bend or break.... The universal joints that hold it to the transmission will go out but that's about it
The Crank shaft turns and causes the cam shaft to turn, the pumps to turn, the alternator to turn, the transmission gears to turn, the transmission causes the drive shaft to turn, the drive shaft causes the differential to turn (in rear wheel drive models) this turns the axles and the axles turn the wheels. In a front wheel model, the transmission turns the axles shaft that turns the wheels. In a 4x4 the transmission splits to turn the front drive shaft and the rear drive shaft. (then the differential and the axles etc. The other thing that is counted is the steering wheel but it never really completes a whole revolution.
The cone pin, or shear pin, is used to attach the propeller to the drive shaft so that if you hit something hard with the propeller, you only break the shear pin, and not the expensive drive shaft, motor, or propeller.Or, more specifically, that you only break the shear pin and propeller, not the drive shaft or motor.
A drive shaft allows torque to enter a motor. Louis Renault of France was the inventor of the drive shaft. He invented the drive shaft in 1898.
Possibly a broken motor mount? Depends what kind of vibration you are feeling Have you checked the tires for blisters? What is the angle of difference between the transmission tail shaft and the drive shaft? Has the drive shaft been balanced?
Check the gear on the cam shaft, you can see it through the hole that the distributor mounts in.
is the drive shaft the same as the intermediate shaft on a vauxhall corsa car does any body no
The drive shaft is part of the drive train, not part of the transmission.
The drive shaft connects the transmission to the differential.