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Old Sep 14, 2009 | 08:35 PM
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Acceleration bump.

I have a 2000 7.3l F-250 with 114k miles on it. Bought it a couple of years ago. Ever since I have owned it, I have noticed from a standstill it makes a bump when you first accelerate like there is slack in the drive train somewhere. Someone told me it might be my limited slip differential.
Any ideas on where I might look. Drive shaft looks good. Not leaking any fluid from anywhere that I can see.
 
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Old Sep 14, 2009 | 08:54 PM
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It sound like all you need to do is regrease the splines on the driveshaft
 
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Old Sep 14, 2009 | 09:00 PM
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Man! Thanks for the quick reply. Regreasing the splines. Is that something that a novice can do on his own?
 
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Old Sep 14, 2009 | 09:03 PM
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Man! Thanks for the quick reply. Regreasing the splines. Is that something that a novice can do on his own?
Yes it is, and I've been needing to do mine for about a year now. The real work is just getting around to do doing it.
 
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Old Sep 14, 2009 | 09:06 PM
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Is there somewhere here that I can go to find out how to do that?
 
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Old Sep 14, 2009 | 09:10 PM
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I'm looking for the link now
 
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Old Sep 15, 2009 | 09:02 AM
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This one Jim, from RHN page.

http://www.eurekaboy.com/f250/slipjoint.htm

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Old Sep 15, 2009 | 09:11 AM
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You guys are the cats meow! (do they still say that anywhere)?
 
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Oh it's not by chance, it's almost a certainty that if you give enough information about what is going on, it will get figured out. There are some incredibly capable people here.It's a given, without a doubt, it's better to come here and ask the question than go to a Ford dealer or most mechanic shop's unless they are big time into the 7.3's.
 
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Originally Posted by TayzGpa
I have a 2000 7.3l F-250 with 114k miles on it. Bought it a couple of years ago. Ever since I have owned it, I have noticed from a standstill it makes a bump when you first accelerate like there is slack in the drive train somewhere. Someone told me it might be my limited slip differential.
Any ideas on where I might look. Drive shaft looks good. Not leaking any fluid from anywhere that I can see.
TayzGpa were you able to do this regreasing yet? Interested to see if it worked out for you. I have the same bump and was thinking about doing this this weekend.
 
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Old Sep 22, 2009 | 02:27 PM
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Yes, I did it a couple of days ago and it worked like a champ.
BE SURE to mark your drive shaft on both ends where it disconnects from the rear end and where it disconnects from the center yoke (or whatever it's called).
I didnt get that quite right at the yoke end and like to have never got it back in the correct slot.
 
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Old Sep 22, 2009 | 03:09 PM
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Cool will try to do that this weekend myslef then
 
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Way to go Jim. You're my hero.

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