U JOINT STRAPS???'s
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You should change the joint as well. If it's been driven with movement, then it's whipped. Perhaps it would be OK with a 200hp power plant, but aren't you racing this thing?
This was scary, and surprising - like a near miss on driveshaft coming through the floor.
Reminds me of the story where hunter takes a deer that had been walking around for years with a broadhead in its lung. The deer should have died long ago, and this u-joint should have come apart.
Reminds me of the story where hunter takes a deer that had been walking around for years with a broadhead in its lung. The deer should have died long ago, and this u-joint should have come apart.
I'm glad it didn't, I took the driveshaft to the driveline shop and they said bad straps or bad yoke so I installed both.
All that and they DIDN'T recommend a new joint? On top of all that,if nothing else it's cheap insurance.
That's what gets me too, a professional shop that has my life in mind would replace that joint. Hell, they'd require it. If it works, it works, but I still worry the caps are smashed/ the needles are trashed. I had a '93 1/2 ton that kept spitting out u joints due to a bad batch from Precision, and an '85 Suburban with a bent shaft- that shaft took out the tail housing and tried coming through the floor and the '93 repeatedly came apart at the rear. Neither is fun, both get expensive quick.
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