I recently went off road and due to stupidity and lack of experience I high centered myself pretty bad. While working to self recover the grass below me caught fire. My current damage assessment is: melted front driveshaft boot, dented oil pan, and a few broken flanges on the transmission.

My question is will I need to completely replace my front drive shaft or can I clean it up and buy a new boot?

 

I'm sorry but how did the grass catch on fire? Video or picture please!!! Lol I'm sorry but too funny and i can't help you with advice

 

Lesson's learned

 

Dry grass + hot exhaust = fire........it happens more often that you'd think

Which boot are you talking about, the cv boot, or the spline shaft boot? And I'm a little confused when you say broken flanges on the transmission.

 

Here is a pic of my front driveshaft and transmission.

 

Ahhh, now I see what you meant. You need to get some skid plates if you're going to be doing any serious wheeling. That could have been a lot worse.

As for the driveshaft, you can get a new boot and clamps. You'll need to uninstall the driveshaft, separate at the slip joint, slide on new boot, reassemble driveshaft, and tighten boot.

 

I would just use this as an excuse to upgrade the drive shafts