Thread: u-joints

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Thanks guys for your input. All of you were totally right.My problem was (being not having done this before) I had room for one clip just not the other.All it needed was a couple more hits with a bigger FH!! Thanks again.

Originally Posted by richyrich

Thanks guys for your input. All of you were totally right.My problem was (being not having done this before) I had room for one clip just not the other.All it needed was a couple more hits with a bigger FH!! Thanks again.

For the future, if you don't have the press Dave mentioned a good bench vice and a socket that just fits into the hole in the yoke presses that cup in place without the risk of tweaking the yoke. They're stout, but like Jerry says,

Originally Posted by Jerry Clayton

Beating will destroy the drive shaft yokes----will knock them out of alignment.

And Jerry,

Originally Posted by Jerry Clayton

Beating too hard??

Sorry, but I was a Navy Aviation Mech and they always said we only had two things in our toolbox, and one was a big hammer, and "If you can't fix it, ......", well, you get the idea

....and speaking about u-joints, the snow blower drive shaft on my tractor just blew the caps off one cross shaft. It still works, but is slowly beating itself to death in the yokes. Just hope I can find one tomorrow - it's only Feb and the foot of heavy snow we got today may just be the beginningThink the Blizzard of March 11, 1888. It also blew a shear pin errrr 5/16 bolt which was the hidden one of the two