I had a similiar problem, if not much worse, but I was lucky enough to have two
drive shafts.
For $70, I had the drive shaft guy make one good drive shaft from the two with
new spiders I
gave him, he also balanced the drive shaft for me and painted it black. It's
never been used
and is one of many things that goes with my earlier add for selling my 62
Sprite. Oh my, what
a bargin. (Shameless self-promotion)
Thx, Q
Mailto: jpquinn@home.com
Keith Gernert wrote:
> Well, after discovering my front U-joint was completely shot in one of its
>spindles, I
> thought this was a job I could tackle myself. Ha! I spent much of the day
>Saturday
> just trying to get the thing out of the front flange. Then, I got to the
>rear U-joint.
> After much frustration just trying to get the clips out, I found something
>interesting.
>
> On the driveshaft yoke, the holes containing the U-joint appear to be
>out-of-round.
> The socket I used on the front end of the driveshaft, which was just the
>right size to fit
> in the hole, will not fit in the holes on the rear yoke. Looking at them
>closely, it
> appears that the holes are slightly oval.
>
> My question: At this point, should I just take the whole mess (plus the new
>joints) to
> a shop and have them finish the job?
>
> I'm leaning that way, after all the trouble I had with the front U-joint. I
>called a whole
> bunch of rental shops trying to find the U-joint tool someone once mentioned
>here on
> the list, to no avail. (I would not have imagined it would have been that
>rare a tool.)
> For the cost of buying that tool, I should be able to have someone else get
>all
> frustrated with it instead of me. My only concern would be that they'd put
>the thing
> together wrong--but I could clearly mark all the ends, and which way the new
>U-
> joints fit, since they have the grease fittings.
>
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> Keith G.
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