Some Trips End Early for Mechanical Reasons

[Grumpy Goat]

From what I have read, the U-joints are permanently sealed (that is why they cannot be replaced and you have to buy the whole driveshaft with both U-joints) so it would be unlikely that lubrication from a water crossing would have removed the lubricant. But one cannot rule out anything I suppose ... not when we don't know what the root cause of the failure is.