Posted by The tractor vet on January 02, 2020 at 09:31:47 from (104.179.81.68):
In Reply to: Bad u-joint posted by Northvale PA on January 01, 2020 at 18:34:50:
A little advice here on u/joint replacement , Buy nothing but Spicer . This i learned from experience . when i bought my 88 Ford used qand ex oil field refugee every and i mean every u/joint was out of it along with a host of other problems . I run down the road to a NAPA store and bought every u/joint from them and set about fixing . Once that was done i set out on bed building . Once i got everything fix so i thought i hooked to my new to me trailer and off i went running to sales and gathering up my buys . After a week and a half of running to sales and bring full loads home it was oil change time and time to put the grease gun to the truck. While greasing the dive line i found that the back joint was toast with around 3500 miles on it So out comes the joint and back to NAPA , the needles were inbeded into the gross . So they give me a new Perssion joint and i install it and grease it well. with good grease . a week and a half later it is oil change time again and here we go the u/joint up at the transfer case is toast with the same thing needles inbedded in the cross , so back to NAPA and again i install a new u/joint . a WEEK later the back one is out again , this time i go to the ford dealer and borrow the drive line angle gauge set and check drive line angle and it is where factory spec's call for so back down to NAPA and we try again only to replace the ft joint the next oil change . This is getting old . I had to go up to a truck parts place one day and was talking to the owner and i asked Bobby if i could get Spicer joints for my LITTLE truck from him and if he would order them in for me . HE told me that he did not have to order them as he stopcked every Spicer joint made , looked up all the numbers for the whole truck walked bqack and came out with and arm load of SPICER joints and said THERE . He wrote up a bill and i was shocked at the price , the price was less then NAPA . Last u/joints i put in that track and put 200000 more miles on the same joints . When i sold the 88 the new owner got a full set of new spicers to go with it as due to the distancve between my shop and Bobby's place i got double of all the joints and never had to replace any . The 88 had a 460 in it and that thing would flat out and run . No i did not even complain about the gas mileage with it , it was a lot better then a semi and yes i could only haul half of a semi load back then there were no hassles with a one ton and a gooseneck .
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