twaldron

Cool. Let us know what Tom say, if you would, PeterP.

PeterP wrote:

> I've sent a message with a link to the image to Tom Wood's. I removed the
> drive shaft last night while replacing the tcase output seal - used an old
> plastic bathtub faucet as a seal installer! While the shaft was out, I
> greased the snot out of it and made sure that grease came out of all the
> u-joint caps. It did.
>
> /Peter
>
> "Mike Romain" <romainm@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
> news:40473F0D.B104D1DC@sympatico.ca...
>
>>I will agree as well.
>>
>>Maybe it was a bad cast that didn't end up with the grease channels open
>>to each other.
>>
>>If it was a bad batch, you still have 2 more of them in there with a
>>potential to be grease dry.
>>
>>I would be pumping grease into the others to make darn sure grease comes
>>out all 4 cups.
>>
>>Mike
>>
>>twaldron wrote:
>>
>>>Much as I hate to say I agree with Brian, I'd do the same. ;)
>>>
>>>I'm just suggesting that you email him the pic and get his opinion on
>>>it. He's very been helpful to me in the past and especially since you're
>>>not trying to "get" anything out of it, just trying to determine what
>>>might have happened. He may have a whole batch of bad u-joints to get
>>>rid of, so I don't get one. :)
>>>
>>>Cherokee-LTD wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I would contact him about if for nothing else, insight. Though we've
>
> never
>
>>>>seen it before maybe he has and can say definitively "your problem
>
> is....".
>
>>>>It might save you some band-aids.
>>>>-Brian
>>>>
>
>
>

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03 TJ Rubicon - Rubicon Express 4.5"
01 XJ Sport

There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."
-- Dave Barry

Pronunciation: 'jEp
Function: noun
Date: 1940

Etymology: from g. p. (G= 'Government' P= '80 inch wheelbase')
A small general-purpose motor vehicle with 80-inch wheelbase,
1/4-ton capacity, and four-wheel drive used by the U.S. army in
World War II.

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