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Oct 17, 2006 | 09:12 PM

Daviddc114

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?!?!? U Joint????

HOW THE heck DO YOU REMOVE THE BEARING CUP FROM THE DAMN DRIVESHAFT!!! got it all apart and i need to be in work at 7 am!! PLEASE HELP!!!!

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Oct 17, 2006 | 09:23 PM

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I'd post a pic to help with visualizing the below, but I can't in the forums. This is from Alldatadiy.com. The "special tool" they are talking about is a c-clamp.

NOTE: If necessary, use a pair of pliers to remove a bearing cup if it cannot be pressed out all the way. Remove the driveshaft flange yoke.
<TABLE cellSpacing=10 cellPadding=1 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top>1</TD><TD vAlign=top>Position the driveshaft flange in the special tool.</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top>2</TD><TD vAlign=top>Press out the bearing cup.</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top>3</TD><TD vAlign=top>Rotate the driveshaft flange yoke.</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top>4</TD><TD vAlign=top>Press on the spider to remove the remaining bearing cup.</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top>5</TD><TD vAlign=top>Remove the driveshaft flange yoke.</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

Repeat the previous step to remove the remaining bearing cups and spider from the driveshaft.
Clean the yoke area at the end of the driveshaft and flange yoke.

Oct 17, 2006 | 10:09 PM

Daviddc114

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tried this over and OVER again.. even tried saoking with WD-40... will not budge!!! if anyone has run into this please help!!

Oct 18, 2006 | 12:15 AM

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Not trying to be smart, but have the retaining clips been taken off the cups?

If so, get a socket larger than the bearing cup to use as a receiver. Set the socket open end up and position the bearing cup over the socket. Get a peice of steel, or a socket smaller than the bearing cup, and place this on the top bearing cup.

Smack the snot out of the upper cup with a 3 lb. sledge until the lower cup starts moving into the botton socket.

When the bottom cup starts moving, turn the shaft over and drive it back the other way to free the other cup up.

Drive this one all the way till the joint bottoms out. You should be able to pull the cup out with channel locks or vice grips.

Turn back over and drive the joint down, and the other cup out.

Remove joint from shaft. Straighten anything you may have bent.

Oct 18, 2006 | 01:06 AM

Daviddc114

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well.. i had to put it back together for tonight.. its 2 am and i gotta use the truck for work tomorrow... i will have to try again tomorrow.. i did pull the retaining clips out.. they also were stuck, i broke/bent all of them getting them out. i had to use the new ones for now.. i tried the socket thing with a C clamp.. not a hammer.. but they friggin things didnt budge at all.. i was even useing a plier to turn the C clamp and bent it a little.. i dont understand!! i might be beat on this one.. i will try again one more time, if no go then i will have to take it to a garage

Oct 18, 2006 | 02:09 AM

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You can't get enough force with a C-clamp. The big hammer will do the trick.

It will help if you heat the band holding the bearing cup. If no torch is available, just get some penetrating oil, then take out some anger on it.

Oct 18, 2006 | 02:30 AM

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I've never had a u-joint loose enough that a c clamp could get it out. I use a LARGE Vise and 4 foot cheater pipe. Place the shaft w/ a the joint between the jaws (you want it so that the ears of the shaft are facing the jaws). Take a socket larger than the end caps and put it between the joint and vice jaw on one side and get another socket that is smaller than the cap on the other side and squeeze them (quite a balancing act if your doing it by yourself but it can be done). The idea here is that your going to press that cap out w/ the small socket and the large socket gives the other cap somewhere to go. Then I crank on the vice w/ the cheater pipe, when I feel a lot of resistance I usually give the movable jaw of the vice a nice little hit w/ a BFH (big fricken hammer)....the shock loosens it up dramatically. Do this until the joint is bottomed out and remove cap w/ channel locks. If you don't have a vice then the next best in my opinion is the BFH method which is basicalyl the same thing except you are hitting the little socket w/ a hammer instead of squeezing it in a vice. GOOD LUCK!!!