Birty Dastards Jeep Club
Tech Forum => Workshop => Topic started by: gordy on March 05, 2014, 08:42:37 AM
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Looks like the mud and crap has goosed my axle U joints, Appreciate if anyone has recommendations as to what what I should replace them with, Spicer, Crown, greaseable or not, and cheapest option for supplier.........Jeepey Mart, Rock Auto, Lighthouse, bla bla bla, cheers.
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Spicer, and non greaseable (the hollow UJ is weaker, ask me how i know...)
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:imwitstupid:
Or just go cheap and prepare to replace a bit more often
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Cheers, the situation is can't feel any play in them but get a slight steering wheel wobble when turning to the right in 2H. Got the feeling they have rusted out and are now binding, where did you get the C Clamp U Joint press from?, Machine Mart?.
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Machine Mart sounds about right to me
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Personally, i don't press them.
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vice and a couple of sockets
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vice and a couple of sockets
If you have the correct U joint, and everything is nice and clean, that is all you need.
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BFH
:hitaxeonthehead:
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BFH
:hitaxeonthehead:
:017: What da fark does that mean?
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BFH
:hitaxeonthehead:
:017: What da fark does that mean?
BIG fucking hammer :098:
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Thanks for the enlightenment...but, a bit of 'overkill', methinks. :icon_winkle:
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got to agree ..... WithDave ...... Two sockets and a big eff off vice......... Have seen expensive kits used and failed........ Hydraulic press .......fail........
But ....... Vice and two sockets has yet to fail me..........
Shame I didn't 't have that with me at CF a few years ago ........ Hammers and shit don't do a good job.......
But I do think that a good UJ ball joint kit used with a battery hammer wrench would do the biz in the field.
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i have used press and hammer /sockets i now routinely use a big lump of flat steel sockets and hammer the shock of the hammer seems to bounce them out
a press can actually bend the ears of the the shaft
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I don't use a press or a vice. Just sockets and a hammer. Much more feedback, you can feel when it's seated properly.
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I don't have a fancy ball joint tool and have found a press can be a bit brutal trying to get slightly seized UJs out - the hammer is a bit more progressive where the press can just build pressure, go bang and leave you hoping the ears aren't bent. You do have to be careful with the hammer method and I use the sockets and steel plate just in case you had visions of me just pounding it with a club hammer.
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Sounds good, already saved myself 50 quidlies not having to buy the C clamp set, BFH and sockets it is then and a call to Lighthouse. :icon_super:
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I notice that BD has (wisely) stayed out of this thread... :hysterical:
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ok cue for BD to reply.
you can paint them black when fitted
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2 x Spicer 5 760X u joints arrived this morning from Lighthouse, will be on this tomorrow. :icon_super:
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Kin hell fire!. Right hand side done, the joint was seized solid across two of the bearings, effectively it could only move up and down, no side movement at all no wonder my steering was all over the place and the vibration through the wheel. They were a bastard to get out though, had shrapnel flying into my hands from the sockets being hit so hard, completely destroyed two and my BFH was not B enough so had to use the big end of my mauling axe on it. Round 2 kicks off today as soon as the neibours are awake.
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Passenger side a piece of piss, took hour and half all in!. Divers side took me 7 hours!, reminder to self: get a vice for the next time if only to hold the damn thing in the right place!.
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Been out for test drive, all the steering, vib issues sorted :icon_super:
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:icon_super:...Good one mate.
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I'll be ordering some tomorrow..