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Re: Vibrating Issues
« on: Jul 23, 2013, 05:35:53 PM »
I looked at it this past weekend and both of my u joints in my driveshaft were damaged. Hell the front one was missing one of the caps. Got them replace and all is good now. Thanks to all for your help.

Awesome find and fix! Do your new u-joints have the grease zerks located on the outer edge or tucked up in the center for protection? We've seen all to many cheap-o aftermarket (non-Toyota) joints have the zerks at the end of a cross-shaft which just simply gets knocked off on the first rock it sees.

Take a look at the Japanese-made high quality ones we sell here: http://www.marlincrawler.com/axle/drive-shafts

They have the zerk located at the inside, so they are protected by the drive line itself:


Compare the zerk location to something like this:


Big difference!

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