Re: U-joints that vibrate?
[Re: 74RALLYE]
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12/22/14 10:37 PM
12/22/14 10:37 PM
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RapidRobert
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Any possibility when the yoke broke it tweaked the shaft? I'd pull it & move the front yoke thru both planes of travel and the rear one thru it's plane of travel & all should be smooth. Other than that I'd have the shaft checked/balanced but first share what happened with the yoke failure
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Re: U-joints that vibrate?
[Re: Grizzly]
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12/23/14 10:43 AM
12/23/14 10:43 AM
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[ Your Friend is right. It took me a while to figure it out, but I will never run jobber greasables again. Nothing but problems no matter how often you grease them.
All Spicer from now on.
x2. The tolerances stack up and even brand new joints will have too much slop once installed. It's slop between the joint's trunion and the needles/caps. Usually enough to see it if you have a good light under there.
Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... Now you tell me what you know.
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Re: U-joints that vibrate?
[Re: rowin4]
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12/23/14 08:22 PM
12/23/14 08:22 PM
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You say you broke the yoke? Do you mean the straps on the yoke ? I have never in close to 50 years of racing seen anyone "BREAK" a yoke. I have seen strap bolts break and of course spit out the u-joint. When this happens sometimes the yoke will spread causing the joint to not properly seat in the yoke causing the drive shaft to vibrate. What's the total story. Did you replace the yoke? or just the straps?
You obviously were not trying hard enough! I think, through the years, I've managed to break just about everything under a car. Some stuff was more difficult then other stuff, and some of it broke and it wasn't even fun.
As I've gotten older, I break a lot less stuff, mainly because I'm too lazy and too cheap to keep replacing stuff.
To the op, if you broke the pinion yoke, the driveshaft is in question, as is the pinion shaft in the rear axle. When you changed the yoke, you didn't mess up the ring & pinion setting, did you? Gene
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Re: U-joints that vibrate?
[Re: 74RALLYE]
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12/24/14 04:19 PM
12/24/14 04:19 PM
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RTDaddy
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First I'm going to try a spicer u-joint ASAP. I hope it's not the drive shaft. I replaced it 2 years ago after another u-joint failure that happened shifting from 2nd to drive at 94mph with the automatic. That was scary.
Hogs head may be the Ford word for "The chunk."
For those of you who may not know, 74Rallye is a former Ford guy. "Forgive him, he knew not what he did." Obviously, he has returned "from the dark side."
"IF YOU'RE UNDER CONTROL, YOU AIN'T GOING FAST ENOUGH."
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