Wierd Steering Issue
Cargo Master
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From: Forest lake minnesota
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From: Mt. Shasta California
That's not good.
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From: Tewksbury, MA
As promised here are the pictures sorry for the cell phone pics...unfortunately not much though we cut one cap off and it fell out so i want gonna try and remove the other cap.
This was the cap on the side that did rotate, the other side was rusted inplace and the top blew off, my grandfather accidentally threw it away while I was at work one day so i don't have that picture.
Here is the cap we had to cut and the other one that is still stuck on there.
This u-joint did have a grease fitting but you could tell the grease had not gotten into the joint at all. Lesson learned here...do the work yourself because the mechanic doesn't know crap. not all mechanics i know there are some really good ones that know their stuff. But clearly my guy doesn't pay attention to anything when this problem was staring him in the face even after he had the axle shaft out. Also I've been driving it all week and the ABS light has not come back on and i have not had the jerking or anything.
This was the cap on the side that did rotate, the other side was rusted inplace and the top blew off, my grandfather accidentally threw it away while I was at work one day so i don't have that picture.
Here is the cap we had to cut and the other one that is still stuck on there.
This u-joint did have a grease fitting but you could tell the grease had not gotten into the joint at all. Lesson learned here...do the work yourself because the mechanic doesn't know crap. not all mechanics i know there are some really good ones that know their stuff. But clearly my guy doesn't pay attention to anything when this problem was staring him in the face even after he had the axle shaft out. Also I've been driving it all week and the ABS light has not come back on and i have not had the jerking or anything.
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From: Land of Taxes
Dam a petrified ujoint! Now thats frozen up. Dont ever recall seeing one that bad. And Ive been doin this for many years.
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From: Mt. Shasta California
The front joints are a different ballgame than the rears so almost none of the normal diagnosis applies to them. They get dried out but still all intact which is why (since I have no zerks) I just spray them with penetrating oil every 2 years while turning in the church parking lot (a whole can). Laugh but it keeps them working very well. They are used so very little (less than 1% of the rears) so this works just fine. I had the "wheel jerking back and forth" delima 4 years ago which gave me the idea (I had a long thread on it) and this cured that problem and saved the joints.
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From: Tewksbury, MA
Another thing i found today was that my passenger side brake line was rubbing my tire along with the esof hose (doesn't matter switched to manual hubs) and my ABS cable. The guys who installed my lift just let it hang against the tire and didn't try to move it or anything. I though it was weird how the smoked vinal wrap that's on the outside of my brake lines (stainless steel ones) was melted when i originally removed my wheel. If it had been a rubber line the tire would have burned through the hose like it did to my esof line and started to on the ABS cable....starting to hate mechanics more and more lol. I electrical tapped the ABS cable where it started to melt through and ran a zip tie around the upper shock body and the brake line to hold it about 2" away from the tire now instead of against it. Easy fix just glad i got stainless lines and not rubber ones when i lifted this thing, i would have had a "wierd braking issue".
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Yeah definitely, I have driven it to work and school every day since last Monday and never had this issue resurface. It's safe to say that the issue has been resolved 
. Thanks guys, I wish my mechanic had just listened to me (you guys really) and replaced the u-joints when i asked him to. I would have had this fixed a long time ago, looks like ill be fixing stuff myself from now on. I always trust the opinion of people on here more than the mechanic 
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. Thanks guys, I wish my mechanic had just listened to me (you guys really) and replaced the u-joints when i asked him to. I would have had this fixed a long time ago, looks like ill be fixing stuff myself from now on. I always trust the opinion of people on here more than the mechanic .