Axle info..cv vs ujoint
06-11-2012, 04:01 PM
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How hard you beating those sockets with the hammer. Tried that last night (didn't feel like messing with press) didn't work. Joints didnt even budge.
06-11-2012, 04:10 PM
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I bent mine trying to get my u-joint out by not using a press.
06-11-2012, 05:06 PM
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I had cv shafts in my xj but one of the boots got a tiny slit in it offroad. It was hard to see so I didn't know it was there. Where I wheel there is a lot of water so the cv got washed out and started popping... I replaced it with u joint shafts so I don't have to deal with it
06-11-2012, 05:20 PM
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Just alittle heat and a few good whacks. ive bent the ears before but just add heat and bend them back out. Ive also used sockets and a vice when its available
06-11-2012, 06:28 PM
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If you buy spicer u joints for all your shafts the ones that are non greasable you wont have many failures as they are pretty strong that the chormoly axles insist on them with there shafts for full warranty,I have them in all my shafts and yet to pop one yet and there the cheaper spicers that have the grease zerts.
06-11-2012, 06:37 PM
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Although it will then require a grinder to swap one, some guys will tack weld the cap to the ear so if it does fail it won't come apart and trash the shaft.
06-11-2012, 06:44 PM
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Originally Posted by 94xjohio
Hey thanks to all for the info. Will just keep my u joints. How do you fix u joints on the trail. Every ujoint I ever done Ineeded my press. Not taking that to wellsville. LOL
06-12-2012, 06:24 AM
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Here's a older weaker shaft I ruined with a autozone U Joint. Been running spicers in 98 shafts since then with no issues.
Yea I kept this as a reminder lol
Yea I kept this as a reminder lol
06-12-2012, 07:39 AM
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So where do you get spicer u joints. Seen them online at 4wd.com. $40 for them. Any place cheaper? For that price spend the extra twenty and cv axle from autozone. Lifetime warranty. Makes sense to me