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Can I get heavy duty U-joints?
I remember someone mentioning something about heavy duty U-joints.
My 76 CJ-7 trashed a rear axle U-joint after a couple hard jaunts through the swamp. Any advice on getting a stronger U-joint that I can still grease without having to remove it from the driveline? (I can't get a grease gun on the fitting) o_o_o_o Best Regards, /| ,[_____], Jim, WP3JQ |ŻŻŻL --O|||||||O- ()_)Ż()_) ŻŻŻŻŻ )_) EM60qk 30.447439N 086.628959W |
Re: Can I get heavy duty U-joints?
Hi Jim,
I use whatever the local store sells: http://www.----------.com/U-Joint.jpg Point the zerk towards the engine was designed to give us enough clearance to grease: http://www.stu-offroad.com/otherwrit...t/ujoint-1.htm Buy a needle nose for those that don't: http://shop.store.yahoo.com/gofast/tirsercengun1.html God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/ Drink wrote: > > I remember someone mentioning something about heavy duty U-joints. > My 76 CJ-7 trashed a rear axle U-joint after a couple hard jaunts through > the swamp. Any advice on getting a stronger U-joint that I can still grease > without having to remove it from the driveline? (I can't get a grease gun > on the fitting) > o_o_o_o > Best Regards, /| ,[_____], > Jim, WP3JQ |ŻŻŻL --O|||||||O- > ()_)Ż()_) ŻŻŻŻŻ )_) > EM60qk 30.447439N 086.628959W |
Re: Can I get heavy duty U-joints?
Hi Jim,
I use whatever the local store sells: http://www.----------.com/U-Joint.jpg Point the zerk towards the engine was designed to give us enough clearance to grease: http://www.stu-offroad.com/otherwrit...t/ujoint-1.htm Buy a needle nose for those that don't: http://shop.store.yahoo.com/gofast/tirsercengun1.html God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/ Drink wrote: > > I remember someone mentioning something about heavy duty U-joints. > My 76 CJ-7 trashed a rear axle U-joint after a couple hard jaunts through > the swamp. Any advice on getting a stronger U-joint that I can still grease > without having to remove it from the driveline? (I can't get a grease gun > on the fitting) > o_o_o_o > Best Regards, /| ,[_____], > Jim, WP3JQ |ŻŻŻL --O|||||||O- > ()_)Ż()_) ŻŻŻŻŻ )_) > EM60qk 30.447439N 086.628959W |
Re: Can I get heavy duty U-joints?
Hi Jim,
I use whatever the local store sells: http://www.----------.com/U-Joint.jpg Point the zerk towards the engine was designed to give us enough clearance to grease: http://www.stu-offroad.com/otherwrit...t/ujoint-1.htm Buy a needle nose for those that don't: http://shop.store.yahoo.com/gofast/tirsercengun1.html God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/ Drink wrote: > > I remember someone mentioning something about heavy duty U-joints. > My 76 CJ-7 trashed a rear axle U-joint after a couple hard jaunts through > the swamp. Any advice on getting a stronger U-joint that I can still grease > without having to remove it from the driveline? (I can't get a grease gun > on the fitting) > o_o_o_o > Best Regards, /| ,[_____], > Jim, WP3JQ |ŻŻŻL --O|||||||O- > ()_)Ż()_) ŻŻŻŻŻ )_) > EM60qk 30.447439N 086.628959W |
Re: Can I get heavy duty U-joints?
Easier than I thought. I just asked the parts guy at O'Reilly's for a HD
U-joint and he gave it to me. FYI: Precision Universal Joints makes the HD version and it's just what the Dr. (me) ordered. It boasts steel alloy cross, HD end caps and is greasable through a fitting that goes into one of the caps vice the cross, so it's truly greasable without having to remove the driveshaft just to get at the fitting. They cost me just under $20 a piece ($12 per joint for the regulars). o_o_o_o Best Regards, /| ,[_____], Jim, WP3JQ |ŻŻŻL --O|||||||O- ()_)Ż()_) ŻŻŻŻŻ )_) EM60qk 30.447439N 086.628959W "Drink" <drink@gnt.net> wrote in message news:c16a8t$nhk$1@news.utelfla.com... > I remember someone mentioning something about heavy duty U-joints. > My 76 CJ-7 trashed a rear axle U-joint after a couple hard jaunts through > the swamp. Any advice on getting a stronger U-joint that I can still grease > without having to remove it from the driveline? (I can't get a grease gun > on the fitting) > o_o_o_o > Best Regards, /| ,[_____], > Jim, WP3JQ |ŻŻŻL --O|||||||O- > ()_)Ż()_) ŻŻŻŻŻ )_) > EM60qk 30.447439N 086.628959W > > |
Re: Can I get heavy duty U-joints?
Easier than I thought. I just asked the parts guy at O'Reilly's for a HD
U-joint and he gave it to me. FYI: Precision Universal Joints makes the HD version and it's just what the Dr. (me) ordered. It boasts steel alloy cross, HD end caps and is greasable through a fitting that goes into one of the caps vice the cross, so it's truly greasable without having to remove the driveshaft just to get at the fitting. They cost me just under $20 a piece ($12 per joint for the regulars). o_o_o_o Best Regards, /| ,[_____], Jim, WP3JQ |ŻŻŻL --O|||||||O- ()_)Ż()_) ŻŻŻŻŻ )_) EM60qk 30.447439N 086.628959W "Drink" <drink@gnt.net> wrote in message news:c16a8t$nhk$1@news.utelfla.com... > I remember someone mentioning something about heavy duty U-joints. > My 76 CJ-7 trashed a rear axle U-joint after a couple hard jaunts through > the swamp. Any advice on getting a stronger U-joint that I can still grease > without having to remove it from the driveline? (I can't get a grease gun > on the fitting) > o_o_o_o > Best Regards, /| ,[_____], > Jim, WP3JQ |ŻŻŻL --O|||||||O- > ()_)Ż()_) ŻŻŻŻŻ )_) > EM60qk 30.447439N 086.628959W > > |
Re: Can I get heavy duty U-joints?
Easier than I thought. I just asked the parts guy at O'Reilly's for a HD
U-joint and he gave it to me. FYI: Precision Universal Joints makes the HD version and it's just what the Dr. (me) ordered. It boasts steel alloy cross, HD end caps and is greasable through a fitting that goes into one of the caps vice the cross, so it's truly greasable without having to remove the driveshaft just to get at the fitting. They cost me just under $20 a piece ($12 per joint for the regulars). o_o_o_o Best Regards, /| ,[_____], Jim, WP3JQ |ŻŻŻL --O|||||||O- ()_)Ż()_) ŻŻŻŻŻ )_) EM60qk 30.447439N 086.628959W "Drink" <drink@gnt.net> wrote in message news:c16a8t$nhk$1@news.utelfla.com... > I remember someone mentioning something about heavy duty U-joints. > My 76 CJ-7 trashed a rear axle U-joint after a couple hard jaunts through > the swamp. Any advice on getting a stronger U-joint that I can still grease > without having to remove it from the driveline? (I can't get a grease gun > on the fitting) > o_o_o_o > Best Regards, /| ,[_____], > Jim, WP3JQ |ŻŻŻL --O|||||||O- > ()_)Ż()_) ŻŻŻŻŻ )_) > EM60qk 30.447439N 086.628959W > > |
Re: Can I get heavy duty U-joints?
Thanks Bill. I changed more than a couple of U-joints and was pretty
twisted when I couldn't grease these. Haha! I'm batting 0% this week! Sheesh. The carb's pissin' me off, the little gear in the ignition switch snapped in the cold, crushed U-joint. What could go wrong now? No, wait. I could crawl under there and find out that it's a premature failure of the pinion bearing:( BTW, isn't this a pretty weird statement for a grease gun?!: "WARNING: Never point nozzles, adapters or couplers at any part of the body or another person!" They tell me that for every warning, there's an idiot with a grease gun... -- o_o_o_o Best Regards, /| ,[_____], Jim, WP3JQ |ŻŻŻL --O|||||||O- ()_)Ż()_) ŻŻŻŻŻ )_) EM60qk 30.447439N 086.628959W "L.W. (ßill) ------ III" <----------@cox.net> wrote in message news:4036C2B2.F4D59502@cox.net... > Hi Jim, > I use whatever the local store sells: > http://www.----------.com/U-Joint.jpg Point the zerk towards the engine > was designed to give us enough clearance to grease: > http://www.stu-offroad.com/otherwrit...t/ujoint-1.htm Buy a > needle nose for those that don't: > http://shop.store.yahoo.com/gofast/tirsercengun1.html > God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O > mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/ > > Drink wrote: > > > > I remember someone mentioning something about heavy duty U-joints. > > My 76 CJ-7 trashed a rear axle U-joint after a couple hard jaunts through > > the swamp. Any advice on getting a stronger U-joint that I can still grease > > without having to remove it from the driveline? (I can't get a grease gun > > on the fitting) > > o_o_o_o > > Best Regards, /| ,[_____], > > Jim, WP3JQ |ŻŻŻL --O|||||||O- > > ()_)Ż()_) ŻŻŻŻŻ )_) > > EM60qk 30.447439N 086.628959W |
Re: Can I get heavy duty U-joints?
Thanks Bill. I changed more than a couple of U-joints and was pretty
twisted when I couldn't grease these. Haha! I'm batting 0% this week! Sheesh. The carb's pissin' me off, the little gear in the ignition switch snapped in the cold, crushed U-joint. What could go wrong now? No, wait. I could crawl under there and find out that it's a premature failure of the pinion bearing:( BTW, isn't this a pretty weird statement for a grease gun?!: "WARNING: Never point nozzles, adapters or couplers at any part of the body or another person!" They tell me that for every warning, there's an idiot with a grease gun... -- o_o_o_o Best Regards, /| ,[_____], Jim, WP3JQ |ŻŻŻL --O|||||||O- ()_)Ż()_) ŻŻŻŻŻ )_) EM60qk 30.447439N 086.628959W "L.W. (ßill) ------ III" <----------@cox.net> wrote in message news:4036C2B2.F4D59502@cox.net... > Hi Jim, > I use whatever the local store sells: > http://www.----------.com/U-Joint.jpg Point the zerk towards the engine > was designed to give us enough clearance to grease: > http://www.stu-offroad.com/otherwrit...t/ujoint-1.htm Buy a > needle nose for those that don't: > http://shop.store.yahoo.com/gofast/tirsercengun1.html > God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O > mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/ > > Drink wrote: > > > > I remember someone mentioning something about heavy duty U-joints. > > My 76 CJ-7 trashed a rear axle U-joint after a couple hard jaunts through > > the swamp. Any advice on getting a stronger U-joint that I can still grease > > without having to remove it from the driveline? (I can't get a grease gun > > on the fitting) > > o_o_o_o > > Best Regards, /| ,[_____], > > Jim, WP3JQ |ŻŻŻL --O|||||||O- > > ()_)Ż()_) ŻŻŻŻŻ )_) > > EM60qk 30.447439N 086.628959W |
Re: Can I get heavy duty U-joints?
Thanks Bill. I changed more than a couple of U-joints and was pretty
twisted when I couldn't grease these. Haha! I'm batting 0% this week! Sheesh. The carb's pissin' me off, the little gear in the ignition switch snapped in the cold, crushed U-joint. What could go wrong now? No, wait. I could crawl under there and find out that it's a premature failure of the pinion bearing:( BTW, isn't this a pretty weird statement for a grease gun?!: "WARNING: Never point nozzles, adapters or couplers at any part of the body or another person!" They tell me that for every warning, there's an idiot with a grease gun... -- o_o_o_o Best Regards, /| ,[_____], Jim, WP3JQ |ŻŻŻL --O|||||||O- ()_)Ż()_) ŻŻŻŻŻ )_) EM60qk 30.447439N 086.628959W "L.W. (ßill) ------ III" <----------@cox.net> wrote in message news:4036C2B2.F4D59502@cox.net... > Hi Jim, > I use whatever the local store sells: > http://www.----------.com/U-Joint.jpg Point the zerk towards the engine > was designed to give us enough clearance to grease: > http://www.stu-offroad.com/otherwrit...t/ujoint-1.htm Buy a > needle nose for those that don't: > http://shop.store.yahoo.com/gofast/tirsercengun1.html > God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O > mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/ > > Drink wrote: > > > > I remember someone mentioning something about heavy duty U-joints. > > My 76 CJ-7 trashed a rear axle U-joint after a couple hard jaunts through > > the swamp. Any advice on getting a stronger U-joint that I can still grease > > without having to remove it from the driveline? (I can't get a grease gun > > on the fitting) > > o_o_o_o > > Best Regards, /| ,[_____], > > Jim, WP3JQ |ŻŻŻL --O|||||||O- > > ()_)Ż()_) ŻŻŻŻŻ )_) > > EM60qk 30.447439N 086.628959W |
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