Meh, I will mess with it this spring, will probably just keep and eye out for a used hood, The bent up headlight mounting plate sucks through as it looks to be spot welded in and I would need to cut one out of an old truck and have it welded back in, doable but a pain.

 

Watch out what you boys say about a woman with a lazy eye...

 

No offense meant but my wife's crazy lesbian mother's crazy partner has a lazy eye freaks me out. When she talks to me I think there is a spider or something over my shoulder, freaks my 2 year old out too.

 

I'd find a new driveline shop. If done properly and maintained properly, the DC front propshaft does not need to be rebuilt every 10-15k miles.
Obviously one might get a faulty part and need to do it sooner, but as a rule not.

 

A bit of a medical lesson, a lazy eye is not the same thing as a wandering/crossed eye. Lazy eye (amblyopia) is a lack of visual acuity. Vision never developed correctly in the lazy eye. Hence it's "lazy" because it doesn't work as hard as the other eye. Wandering/crossed eye (strabismus) is different.

Why do I care? Because I have amblyopia. I'm legally blind in one eye and always have been. But you'd never know unless you looked at the prescription for my right eye.

 

I've seen a couple posts on Disco Web that say the same thing...that the center ball kit goes out because of the nature of the part.

At any rate, my truck is back in working order. No squeak. They didn't replace the u-joints, only the center ball kit...and it works just fine.

We'll see what happens..still going to trade it in at some point. I might try to find a Disco I instead...

 

Not sure what is meant by "the nature of the part"
The centering ball on the stock propshaft won't last as long as the kind on DC units where there is a grease fitting for them, but they can be lubed some with some effort, which most people aren't aware of or bother with.
But even so, a new one will last a heck of a lot longer than 10k miles.

I just took one off my Disco that I rebuilt that had 50-75k miles on it, and was still in fine shape.

 

by nature of the part...I've read that the stud in the center ball kit causes problems...it causes the ball to become grooved over time. Hence some last 500 miles, others last thousands of miles. You just don't know.

I've read a few posts that driveline people have said that rebuilds don't last...I've also read where Tom Woods stated the same thing (though TW could have just been trying to sell drive shafts...)

I'm not saying I'm right...I'm just relaying the research I've done. After this research, I guess it was my center ball kit and bought just that part before taking my drive shaft in. I ended up being correct, that the center ball kit was shot. The u-joints were fine.

Unless we are all getting bad parts...

 

Thats my girl...lazy eye and all.