Rear driveshaft play

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Feb 28, 2010 | 03:03 PM

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Originally Posted by infiniteuser

Thanks, I guess I'll go ahead and replace them then and see what happens.

In the meantime, I shot a video of changing gears and uploaded it, so I'll post it for good measure. Hopefully it confirms u-joints.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LemXSnUnYzM

There is some ring/pinion play, but a lot more urgent is that one of the u-joint retaining straps is missing/broken off! That allows lots of play and an impending DS falling out. Watch the u-joint moving in the rear yoke. IMO
Dan

Feb 28, 2010 | 11:59 PM

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infiniteuser

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Year: 1999

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I crawled under and double checked - the retaining straps are both there. Trying to get those damn things off when I initially went to change the joints is what led me to create this thread in the first place.

Mar 8, 2010 | 12:57 PM

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Well the weather finally improved and I got under there and replaced those u-joints yesterday. I've noticed little, if any, improvement.

Mar 10, 2010 | 03:28 PM

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Well, after driving it a bit more I've noticed that the clunk on acceleration/deceleration has gone away... I guess that was probably the slip joint, which was pretty dry when I took the shaft off.