U-Joint Confusion?
10-24-2018 | 07:39 PM
#16
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From: Louisville KY
Year: 01
Model: Cherokee
This is what happens when a needle bearing is out of place and you don’t realize it. I should have known i was putting too much pressure on it. Snapped the little ear that keeps the snap ring in place clean off. I kept the shaft and old u joints in it for a trail spare, but it’s defintiely not a daily driver shaft anymore.
10-24-2018 | 08:07 PM
#17
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From: Groton, MA
Year: 1995
Model: Cherokee(XJ)
Engine: I6 4.0L
This is what happens when a needle bearing is out of place and you don’t realize it. I should have known i was putting too much pressure on it. Snapped the little ear that keeps the snap ring in place clean off. I kept the shaft and old u joints in it for a trail spare, but it’s defintiely not a daily driver shaft anymore.
I had the lovely experience of putting the driveshaft in, driving a couple hundred feet from my driveway and having the u-joints blow out of the shaft and shear off the strap bolts on my rear pinion yoke. I should have trusted my gut that the u-joint was too tight to be right....
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