country2

Just pulled out the front shaft in my 2000 Jeep Cherokee which I believe uses 1310 u-joints but wanted to make sure. Thanks

jordan96xj

Yes it does. If you prefer serviceable joints, I recommend getting HD joints that have the grease fitting in the cap (not on the u-joint body), because once in the cardan it is very difficult, if not impossible, to get them lubed.

I used these:

country2

Thanks for the info I had googled it and thats pretty much what I saw just wanted to make sure. Also from what I have read seems like most people are saying the Spicer non-greasable u-joints seems to last longer due to the sealing of the grease is so good...then again guess if you grease regularly its probably just as good?

investinwaffles

Off road the sealed ones are probably preferred. The trunion is solid instead of with a grease passage through the middle.

On road I would prefer to lube at every oil change though. It will definitely last longer greasing it every 3k miles

I use Lucas Green Xtra Heavy Duty grease which helps prevent washout and has a really high drop point, but AMSOIL is probably better

country2

Yea that makes sense. I'm old school and just don't feel right not greasing...

jordan96xj

If I ever pushed my XJ hard enough to fracture a u-joint body, I'd be happy that the u-joint broke and not the stuff it is attached to. The serviceable u-joint strength discussion makes a little more sense for extremely high torque applications - but isn't going to come into play on most XJs. Normally when XJ/TJ Jeeps are pushed too hard they rip the u-joint straps off and break the bolts on the yokes. These are typically way weaker than the u-joint itself.

My rear most u-joint started to fail last year, so I inspected it closely when replacing to get an idea of what went wrong. I noticed there had been water/salt intrusion and there was visible rust and the grease had been flushed/compromised. Ever since then, I moved to all serviceable joints on my drive shafts, that way during the winter I'm constantly flushing out any contamination (salt/water) with fresh grease. I think this concern would depend on where you live, but up here we have a very long, wet, and extremely salty winter/spring season.

I still have non-serviceable joints on my front axle, and they have been fine for 3 years so far, and I think the non-serviceables that they replaced were 20 year old factory originals. So I'm sure either type would probably serve you well.

country2

Thanks for the input. This XJ so far is stock and most likely will stay this way since I'm not getting younger and things are just getting harder for me to do but then again its really my sons but be I'm thinking about giving him my 2001 F150 4x4 with only 113k miles on it and taking the xj over.