I gave up on doing them myself. I have a local drive line shop that charges
about $18 per end. $36 gets you Spicer u-joints & installation. I figure
my time is worth that much at least. It's usually only a few hours turn
around to get it done.
Jeff
on 4/16/03 4:23 PM, Patrick Parsons at patrickparsons@hawaii.rr.com wrote:
>
> Ok, the squealing noise in my rear end returned even after greasing the area
> liberally inside and out.
>
> ;-)
>
> So, I dropped the prop shaft. As I suspected, one axis of the rearmost
> u-joint is "frozen" as far as my hands trying to budge it go. The engine and
> tranny get it to move, but with that squeak-squeak sound.
>
> Now that I've got the Circlips out, I cant get anything else unstuck. Can't
> figure out how to get the caps out of the yokes. I figured I'd squeeze them
> out by clamping down on one cap and hoping it would pop out the other side.
> I guess I must first soak in hot water and Simple Green, then apply liberal
> doses of PB Blaster...
>
> Any ideas for a bitch of a u-joint will be handy...
>
> I don't have a press of any sort, no 12" lathe, no oxy acetylene torch...
> Have BFH and diminishing supply of beer and patience. <grins>
>
> --pat.
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