Originally Posted by Grizzly
Originally Posted by Moparite
If it hasn't been said enough, Spicers! Not all of them are the same they have different versions. I would get the "spicer life" series, They have 3 seals to keep the grease in and dirt out. I learned my lesson the hard way by installing precision u joints that failed a little more than a year later.

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Oh boy, is that picture is worth a thousand words. up

That precision schitt is all the parts store i deal with stocks. mad I don't know how many of those greaseable POS's I put in and kept blaming myself for doing something wrong when they failed 6 or 10 months later. rant Greasing them constantly never helped. flame

Got a sealed Mopar U-joint and noticed when I pulled it out of the box it has "Spicer" and "Dana" cast into them. Many many trouble-free miles later I learned that there are only Spicer u-joints made. No one else makes a u-joint except for a couple of Napas that I have in another Ram that are sealed and have lifetime warranty. Have about 50,000 miles on them now, but for sure sticking with sealed Spicers since they last forever.


Same here! I replaced the original 180,000 mile rear Ujoint in my Dodge 1 ton dually with a Precision, greased it at every oil change, and less than 30,000 miles later it failed on a road trip in Alamogordo New Mexico. I limped into a parts store 3 minutes before they closed, and changed it in their gravel parking lot. It looked like lack of grease to one leg, but I checked my service records and it had been greased. Now i know from this thread what happened.

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