Re: RE: could be U joints...drivetrain

From: Michael Clark (mike@snakebite.com)
Date: Fri Sep 18 1998 - 21:33:56 EDT


> Mike,
<SNIP>
> Any relative motion is
> indicative of wear or at the least a severe lack of grease. U joints are
> relatively cheap and fairly easy to replace if youve got any doubt. I
> usually replace them every 60K miles or so ever since I lost one on the
> Highway in the middle of nowhere...
> BKB

the motion that I could see was in the actual shaft coming out of the
rear of the transmission, what's that called (output shaft???) anyway
I didn't see any movement in the joints other than what was caused by
the shaft moving a hair. If they aren't too much I'll replace the
joints just to be safe. Doesn't Summit have some beefed up racing
joints? Right now I've got 79,000 miles on the clock. Will I need to
have these installed at a shop or is it something I can do with simple
hand tools?

---Mike, worried near Houston.---
 My sig file=====> http://web.wt.net/~mclark/signature.txt
 My Dakota page==> http://web.wt.net/~mclark/dakota.html
 Dakota Webring==> http://web.wt.net/~mclark/webring/ring.html



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Fri Jun 20 2003 - 12:09:52 EDT