sqweek sqweek,... bad u joints
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Burning Brakes
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From: Naval Station Guantanamo Bay Cuba N/A
sqweek sqweek,... bad u joints
aside from insighting illegal street racing, (darn it , sometimes...like today...I need to get from Kaneohe MCB to Pearl Harbor Naval staion really really quickly) Anyway this poat is about U joint..not as sexy as street racing i know. I am all but covinced my sqweeking is coming from them. But, the deal is i realize i know noting about them. I have a reciept fro the previous owner for a service replacing 4 of them but that was like 5 years 50,000 miles and a crate motor ago.
simply what do they do, were are the located exactly, can they sqweek from needing some sort of lubrication? how much should it cost for their replacement and most importantly. May i just drive the car to the shop or should i have it towed? ( I sort of need the car for work related purposes this friday...that whole Pearl harbor to kaneohe thing,..my other car hates to climb the mountain)
simply what do they do, were are the located exactly, can they sqweek from needing some sort of lubrication? how much should it cost for their replacement and most importantly. May i just drive the car to the shop or should i have it towed? ( I sort of need the car for work related purposes this friday...that whole Pearl harbor to kaneohe thing,..my other car hates to climb the mountain)
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From: Foxfield CO 1970 Convertible
Re: sqweek sqweek,... bad u joints (sharkthehunter77)
Hopefully this will work...
The U-joints connect the driveshaft to the differential and the differential to the wheels via the "half shafts". They allow these parts to spin when they are not perfectly in alignment.
You should be able to drive to the shop, but if the U-joints are really the squeaking items, they are not far from falling apart. Don't go without replacing them too long, otherwise you WILL need to be towed (and also have to pay for other damaged parts). The standard U-joint parts aren't too expensive ($15-20??) each. They aren't hard to install either, but I'm not sure what labor is out where you live...
Other things that squeak - the disk calipers dragging on the rotors, wheel bearings, & mice.
Good luck -
[Modified by Z-man, 12:51 PM 2/10/2004]
The U-joints connect the driveshaft to the differential and the differential to the wheels via the "half shafts". They allow these parts to spin when they are not perfectly in alignment.
You should be able to drive to the shop, but if the U-joints are really the squeaking items, they are not far from falling apart. Don't go without replacing them too long, otherwise you WILL need to be towed (and also have to pay for other damaged parts). The standard U-joint parts aren't too expensive ($15-20??) each. They aren't hard to install either, but I'm not sure what labor is out where you live...
Other things that squeak - the disk calipers dragging on the rotors, wheel bearings, & mice.
Good luck -
[Modified by Z-man, 12:51 PM 2/10/2004]
