well, today i was hauling cattle and the straps that hold the Ujoint to the rear yolk broke, threw the shaft. so imma put a new carrier bearing in it tommorrow and fix the yolk, and all that. i brung it in with trailer in 4x4 high (manual hubs) after takin out the shaft in the middle of the road (no shoulder). any tips when re-assembling?

 

Tips:
Assemble it and drive to the tranny shop that probably installed them, and give them a piece of your mind. Man that sucks.

 

man your luck has been s***

 

2 stoke it sounds like your having the same luck as me...and apparently the same problem with the rear end.

About 7 or 8 months ago my injection pump started leaking really bad...$1100 later i had a brand new injection pump with the fuel turned up a bit and a nicely timed motor that was running way better than before....4 days later a berry farmer in a 5 ton truck decided to back into the side of my truck taking out my box, drivers side door and drivers side fender. Insurance then tells me due to the damage my truck is a write off and offers me $3000. I almost die laughing and tell them i bought the truck for $5000 not even a year ago....i just put a $1100 injection pump on it 4 days ago!!, plus i had receipts for a couple grand of aftermarket accesories ive bought for the truck like lights, gauges, lift kit that wasnt installed yet. So they then tell me their final offer is $3000..i can take it and write the truck off....or take $2200 and the truck and walk away...which is what i did. So the truck sits in my driveway for the next few weeks while i change the box, door and fender. I finally get it on the road and a week later my carrier bearing comes out of the hanger one day while driving...so i pull the driveshaft and get it completely rebuilt with new u joints and carrier bearing. I install it in the truck and drive it for 15 seconds before the carrier bearing comes out again. So i drove it straight to the shop and let the guy look at it and he says he put the wrong type of bracket on the bearing and it was his fault that it came out again...so he replaces the bearing again. then a week later on my way home from work the straps on the yoke broke and my driveshaft met the road and the bottom of my truck a few times...so I replace the u joint that met the road...the yoke...and straps...drive it for a few months thinking my bad luck is gone...but i was wrong...in the past few months ive gone through a starter, steering box and now my clutch is going out on me. The thing that pisses me off the most is that everybody i talk to tells me im a idiot and to just get rid of the truck...but i cant, at this point ive got so much time and money into it i think im stuck with it...my dad always makes me feel better by saying eventually ill hit that point where ive changed so much that ill have a pretty much new truck....i sure hope hes right.

haha didnt mean to hijack the thread...it just feels good to get that off my chest and talk about it.

 

1957F100- that is some bad luck man. Hope everything gets better

 

You will probably need to replace the yolk on the rear axle too. From what Neal said, you must have had someone work on your truck recently. If that's so, follow his advice. When giving them a piece of your mind, do so in a mannor that will get your point accross, but not be an azz about it, even though you are justified in doing so. I work on trucks for people and occasionally, I do make a mistake too. The only way to avoid making a mistake is to do nothing. Make sure the driveline is balanced, and in time. If the people working on your truck don't understand what I just said, take it somewhere else. What I mean by the timing on a driveshaft is that the u-joints all need to be in line. In other words, the u-joint cups need to be in line with each other from the transfer case to the rear axle. Hope this makes sence. This gets messed up sometimes when installing the slip yolk on the front half of the driveshaft. Sometimes people don't know to make sure that the cups all need to be in a line. This is how they are assembled when balanced. If you assemble them differently, than it won't be balanced any more.

 

I agree with what everyone else is saying. Go back to whoever worked on your truck and get them to replace what broke. When my straps broke it looked to me like the bolts holding 1 of the straps on backed out which caused the strap to loosen which then gave the u joint a way to pop out of the yoke. I blame all this on the guy that installed my driveshaft the last time after he replaced the carrier bearing the second time. Obviously he didnt torque the bolts properly. I also blame myself for not checking them after having the work done.

And yea you probably will need a new yoke. I know i had to replace mine after my straps broke and my driveshaft came out. Luckily they arent that hard to replace. But ill give you some advice if you are going to change the yoke. Do yourself a favor and replace the pinion seal while you are in there. I didnt replace mine and it started leaking after i installed the new yoke...

 

2stroke, You need better luck, or at least you need a better mechanic. IIRC you had a similar problem not too long ago.

Edit:
Yep here it is:
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/727101-carnage.html