Richard,
Wonderful description on the URL you've kindly shared. If I understand
it right, I do NOT neet to seperately remove the rear hub, and it's
related pain in the rear use of 'special' tools, etc, that I just take
out the entire unit at one piece? Is my understanding correct, or have I
misunderstood what you wrote?
Brad
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On 16 Jul 2001 09:33:31 -0500 Richard B Gosling
<Gosling_Richard_B@perkins.com> writes:
> Brad,
>
> DO NOT delay replacing dodgy UJs!!!!! Twice now I have thought, on
> a Tuesday,
> "Oh, I'll leave it to the weekend when I'll have a little more
> time". Twice,
> before the week was out, I have had the UJ disintegrate on me,
> while driving
> along at 70 mph. It was very, very scary, as I had very limited
> control over
> the car's direction, since one rear wheel was flopping freely all
> over the
> place. You would think I'd learned the first time! I was very
> fortunate on
> both occasions to guide the car more or less to the edge of the
> road without
> hitting anything.
>
> Get underneath the car and check your UJs. If there is a problem it
> should be
> quite apparent - check for free play by turning the prop-shaft and
> watching/feeling for relative movement at the UJ, and also grab the
> half-shaft
> and try to shake it.
>
> If either UJ is dodgy, allow a couple of hours (each) for
> replacement. I have
> written up the procedure on Jeff McNeal's Totally Triumph Network -
> check out
> http://www.ohms.com//spitfire/dcforum/DCForumID45/26.shtml#
>
> Richard & Daffy
>
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