Had a run of bad luck. Broken Drive shaft
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Had a run of bad luck. Broken Drive shaft
So the other night I went to Boulder to help a buddy out who broke a UJoint on his rear shaft in his 77 Highboy, couldnt fix it because when it fell and drug it broke the housing. The bad thing is it was about 2am when I we finally got the rear shaft out so he could get home in 4high. When I was about to leave my battery was dead so I figured I would push start it drop the clutch and be back in business. Bad idea! Dropped the clutch and sheered the teeth off the slipjoint and my rear shaft was toast. Finally made it home about 5:30am and hunted the following day for a new shaft. Got one installed new joints and I am back on the road.
My question is has this happened to anyone else or am I just that unlucky?
What I learned is always have jumper cables in the truck esp. if your an hour from home trying to fix someone elses rig.
My question is has this happened to anyone else or am I just that unlucky?
What I learned is always have jumper cables in the truck esp. if your an hour from home trying to fix someone elses rig.
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Seems like people have been having trouble with their drive shafts lately.
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I just replaced the front drive shaft u-joint today. It took three hours to get the driveshaft out. Anyway what kind of joint is on front driveshaft near the transfer case end?
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BTW.... Ory good job on getting and posting pics.
Last edited by Lord Of War; 10-22-2008 at 10:27 PM.
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that would be a CV joint. same thing as your front axles. if you have IFS. I toasted the splines on my front drive line in the CV part, but that was after i helped pull out a 23,000lb RV stuck in sand. I picked up a used one from a drive line shop for 65 bucks. reused the U-joint from my drive line (just repacked it everything in it was fine) and its held up so far and that was at 160,000 I've got over 5,000 more miles on it now
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