Real time help needed! Vibrations!
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03-07-2011, 11:19 PM
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Big slide hammer, that's the only way. You can try the old trick of filling the cup with thick grease and find something that fits tight in the hole, then smack it as hard as possible with a hammer. The hydraulic pressure will lift the cup out some, but you get grease everywhere. I got mine out about 1/4" then gave up and got a slide hammer.
I tried packin it with grease like a pilot bearing.......moved a pube hair!
Went to checker and rented a slide hammer......out in two hits!!
I screwed up one of the ujoints needle bearings, one must have fallen in the cap during assembly and when I hit it to seat the caps, that one needle bearing broke in there and created havack from hell! Needless to say I sat down with a beer and stared at the beast that got the best of me for the day!!!!
Tomorrow is a new day with a new ujoint!
#22
03-08-2011, 06:19 AM
Take it slow when installing u joint caps and put away the hammers, all of them. Pack the cups full with grease, that keeps the needles in place. Gently press the cups in place with a bench vice, you can use a large socket to seat them. The bench vice keeps the cups square and they go in easy and there are no hassles with needles falling out from hammer blows. A G clamp might work if you do not have a vice.
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