Hard to tell from the video, HJ, but those sound fine to me…
(now you see why I needed your guidance on my gear patterns….)
Are my u-joints in bad condition?
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(now you see why I needed your guidance on my gear patterns….)
you need to put your hearing aids in !!!!!Hard to tell from the video, HJ, but those sound fine to me…
(now you see why I needed your guidance on my gear patterns….)
What?you need to put your hearing aids in !!!!!
...and you ended up teaching me....(now you see why I needed your guidance on my gear patterns….)
If you ever rode in my rig with me on the skinny pedal, you’d understand….you need to put your hearing aids in !!!!!
Another question. I'm planning on going to the beach with a few friends in about a week or so, and I have been trying to save money for gas and food etc. for the trip. That being said, the spicer rebuild kit that I was looking at is about $120 which I would rather not spend since it would take a big chunk out of my saved beach fund. Would it be safe to just drive down there and back without my front driveshaft in at all? It would be a total trip of 650 miles combined.
I suggest at the very least you take Jerry's advice and clean it up with some WD and then clean with Brake Clean, then grease the heck out of it especially the centering ball. If all the joints are tight and don't feel notchy you'll probably be ok.
Driving it without the front drive shaft isn't going to cause any damage just remember don't get stuck in the sand.
I would rebuild the driveshaft completely. No sense in rebuilding part of it and then pulling it again in a few months possibly. They look like they have been there a good while and can’t be too far behind the centering ball issues…
You can definitely make your trip without the front driveshaft installed. Just remember the fact you aren’t in a 4WD at that point and proceed accordingly…
You can definitely make your trip without the front driveshaft installed. Just remember the fact you aren’t in a 4WD at that point and proceed accordingly…
P man's wife: Hey honey, the front door is making a funny squeaking noise
P man: I'll pick up some new hinges at the hardware store tomorrow
pagrey's way is much better ! put your driveshaft back in, and if going down the highway it departs the vehicle, scratch your head and go "huh, i guess it would of been cheaper/easier to replace them when i had it out" !!!! if you want to do it right, and you said no with it removed the noise is gone, put the new u-joints in it and at least eliminate that . just me but i hate being stuck on the side of the road with no tools, especially after i just had it removed with all the tools right there.
You wouldn't believe it, some joints have zerk fittings so you don't have to pull them apart to grease them. It's amazing.
true, but did you look at the pic's aint no zerk on there. and the end caps look like they have worn holes in them, but its hard to tell for sure !
Give me a break. Just because you only know how to replace parts and not service them doesn't mean that's the only option. Nobody ever said replacing them was a bad idea. It was only suggested that inspection, cleaning and greasing was okay too. You clearly don't have the experience to tell anybody there is only one correct way to do this.
(I also thought that mentioning that some joints had grease fittings would make it clear that all joints were designed to be greased and the fitting was simply there to make that process simple, guess you didn't get that)
do you see the grease seal on top of the 1st pic ? it's shot. regreasing that will help for about a few hundred miles at best and there are still 2 holes in the caps on the 2nd pic. i'm a 32 year aircraft mech. and have a good idea when something is serviceable and when it's shit, and those u-joints look like shit
Just so there's no confusion, non-greaseable (sealed) u-joints should not be greased. I'd grease one if it was an emergency to get me to where it can be replaced but that's it. Spicer's official line on their sealed u-joints like their 5-1310x, 5-760x, 5-1330x u-joints in their install directions indicate they should not be greased at all. Further, they instruct that if the bearing caps are removed from a sealed/non-greasable u-joint, they need to go back to the same position they came from so the amount of grease there will not change.
Here's Denny's confirmation on that subject from https://www.dennysdriveshaft.com/frequently_asked_questions.html#faq_id14
"How often should I add grease to my non greaseable u-joints?
-Never! Just leave them alone and they will last for a very long time. You can do more harm than good by taking them apart."
Here's Denny's confirmation on that subject from https://www.dennysdriveshaft.com/frequently_asked_questions.html#faq_id14
"How often should I add grease to my non greaseable u-joints?
-Never! Just leave them alone and they will last for a very long time. You can do more harm than good by taking them apart."
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