Axleshaft Play
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Year: 1995
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Axleshaft Play
While replacing the shocks and springs on my 1992 XJ today, I noticed that I can grab the passenger side axleshaft and rattle it around quite a lot. The universal joint on the other end rattles around pretty hard, too. This is, I'll grant, a stupid question but: is this bad?
If I'm not mistaken, it's been like this for about 60,000 miles, based on some things the previous owner said that are now making more sense. Which I figure either means, "It's no big deal," or, "Replace it now or everything will explode."
If I'm not mistaken, it's been like this for about 60,000 miles, based on some things the previous owner said that are now making more sense. Which I figure either means, "It's no big deal," or, "Replace it now or everything will explode."
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Yeah, that's kind of what I'm thinking. That said, I also found some places where the steering knuckle is rusted through. At some point, I really need to surrender and buy a new XJ...from somewhere they don't use salt on the roads.
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i would go to a junk yard and swap the whole axle. you can pick up a HP dana 30 for about $200 and it would be alot cheaper then new shafts.
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