Doing the U-Joints on the Explorer (Update: update)

"Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero" (sampsonite24) 01/12/2019 at 19:27 • Filed to: None

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AND IVE MENDED IT! Finally got the driveshaft back in, had to take it to a family friends who had a vice to get the ujoints out of the drive shaft, and had to run out and exchange a ujoint cause AutoZone gave me a wrong one but 7 hours later all the horrible vibrations and noises are gone!

Yeah. This one, fuck this one

Got to try out the new jack I got for Christmas. And let me just say, fuck the flange that connects the driveshaft to the transfer case. Sucker won’t come off

Update: Driveshaft out!

Pretty sure U-Joints aren’t supposed to have metal sticking out of the rubber boot

bob and john > Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero 01/12/2019 at 13:39

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un do the bolts, then try and do a burnout :)

VincentMalamute-Kim > Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero 01/12/2019 at 14:06

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The usual last resort? Oxy/acet?

What symptoms were you having that led to this?

Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero > VincentMalamute-Kim 01/12/2019 at 14:09

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Loud rumble and vibrations at highway speed that got worse when you let off the gas . And there was a lot of play in the U-Joints when I got under the car

RacinBob > bob and john 01/12/2019 at 14:30

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Actually I was going to suggest a variant. Loosen the bolts and drive it and see if it loosens. 

VincentMalamute-Kim > Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero 01/12/2019 at 16:39

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You didn’t tell us how you got it out! Penetrating oil and the two medium size BFHs in the first photo?

shop-teacher > Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero 01/12/2019 at 18:33

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Good work!

Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero > VincentMalamute-Kim 01/12/2019 at 19:27

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Haha penetrating oil and a pry bar

Urambo Tauro > Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero 01/13/2019 at 00:59

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Eh, w ho needs needle bearings anyway?

Glad you caught it before it got any worse!