Driveshaft rebuild done!
One of the u-joints on my '01 Disco is trashed. Had the usual signs that started with the squeak, then followed by the vibration and clunking. I didn't know about the clunking until I was informed by the missus (she drives it a lot more than I do, toting the kids around.) I drove it for a day (and when I say "drove" I should say "babied") with the clunking, and then parked it in the garage. This is what I found:
Needless to say, this has to be fixed immediately. I figure I'll do all of the u-joints while I have the front shaft off. What parts am I going to need here? I'm assuming three of the 1-0005 u-joints, and one of the 7-0081NG centering ball kits, but what's up with the busted piece you see in the picture? Is that something that's replaced with these parts, or is that a physical part of the driveline steel parts that can't be replaced this way? Am I looking at new u-joints, an entirely new driveline, or something in-between?
Needless to say, this has to be fixed immediately. I figure I'll do all of the u-joints while I have the front shaft off. What parts am I going to need here? I'm assuming three of the 1-0005 u-joints, and one of the 7-0081NG centering ball kits, but what's up with the busted piece you see in the picture? Is that something that's replaced with these parts, or is that a physical part of the driveline steel parts that can't be replaced this way? Am I looking at new u-joints, an entirely new driveline, or something in-between?
WOWOOWOWOWO!!!! you got lucky that diddnt destroy your transmission and transfer case... you are correct with the part numbers now pull that sucker and replace those joints. and yes that broken bit is part of the joint.
Baja
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Advance Auto Parts (store and online both) I know are PDQ/Neapco.
For anyone doing this I recommend being very leery of ordering u-joints from Autozone. Their web site says they are PDQ, but I've checked in the stores several times and their u-joints are cheap Chinese junk using PDQ part numbers. If the ones the OP received were PDQ, I suspect they may have been NOS and at some point they'll be shipping the Chinese ones.
Advance Auto Parts (store and online both) I know are PDQ/Neapco.
Advance Auto Parts (store and online both) I know are PDQ/Neapco.
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Rock Crawling
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For anyone doing this I recommend being very leery of ordering u-joints from Autozone. Their web site says they are PDQ, but I've checked in the stores several times and their u-joints are cheap Chinese junk using PDQ part numbers. If the ones the OP received were PDQ, I suspect they may have been NOS and at some point they'll be shipping the Chinese ones.
Advance Auto Parts (store and online both) I know are PDQ/Neapco.
Advance Auto Parts (store and online both) I know are PDQ/Neapco.
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or pic below.
Thanks for noting that.
-Anthony
Overlanding
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I tried to go to Advance, but they didn't carry the u-joints and had no way of knowing when they could get them in. Autozone isn't ideal, but they at least had the joints...
I was able to get the centering ball kit from Advance, well, it'll be here tomorrow. Should I take the ones from Autozone back and find something else online?
I was able to get the centering ball kit from Advance, well, it'll be here tomorrow. Should I take the ones from Autozone back and find something else online?
Winching
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I tried to go to Advance, but they didn't carry the u-joints and had no way of knowing when they could get them in. Autozone isn't ideal, but they at least had the joints...
I was able to get the centering ball kit from Advance, well, it'll be here tomorrow. Should I take the ones from Autozone back and find something else online?
I was able to get the centering ball kit from Advance, well, it'll be here tomorrow. Should I take the ones from Autozone back and find something else online?
I used Precision part #344 for u-joints and Precision part #617 for the center ball kit. The zerk fitting is in the base of the u-joints, but I had no trouble greasing it.
Baja
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I tried to go to Advance, but they didn't carry the u-joints and had no way of knowing when they could get them in. Autozone isn't ideal, but they at least had the joints...
I was able to get the centering ball kit from Advance, well, it'll be here tomorrow. Should I take the ones from Autozone back and find something else online?
I was able to get the centering ball kit from Advance, well, it'll be here tomorrow. Should I take the ones from Autozone back and find something else online?
Last edited by antichrist; May 8, 2010 at 08:18 PM.
Baja
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Sounds like you went to the dealer for a replacement OE propshaft. If that's the case, you need to pull it and get it rebuilt with greaseable u-joints, or plan on replacing or rebuilding it every 40k miles.