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 Post subject: Uni joint
PostPosted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 2:55 pm 
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Don't you hate it when your driving along the freeway and your Uni joint decides it doesn't want to do it's job anymore. So I'm waiting on the side of the road for my free tow. In the 30mins I've been here three people I know have stopped to help:)

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crap. on the way home from school?
i was down that way, could tried flat towing it with the rav4 and some network cable.

if you need help fixing it tomorrow let me know and depending on the hangover ill come round
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Yeah on the way home from school. It didn't like moving cos the drive shaft was flapping around. It's at garrys. I don't really have time to fix it.

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How old was it? I ask this as i'm about to buy some, and wanna know if it was a cheap one or a not so cheap one.

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It was put in the car in 1997, so that makes it 13+ years old.
It was the plastic cup type one, not the rubber version.

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poeee wrote:
How old was it? I ask this as i'm about to buy some, and wanna know if it was a cheap one or a not so cheap one.


I put cheap ones in my car about 12 months ago because I couldn't find any good ones. I have just purchased a set of good nylon cup ones with needle rollers in each end. I got about 15 years out of my last set of needle rollers and it appears only about 12 months out of my new cheap rubber ones.

Do the math and decide which ones are cheaper :wink:

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Rubber U/Js these days don't last like the originals did. They were GOOD rubber, unlike rubber products (most) these days.
I don't like rubber U/Js- I run Hardy Spicers, they are pretty bulletproof.

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Rubber U/Js these days don't last like the originals did. They were GOOD rubber, unlike rubber products (most) these days.
I don't like rubber U/Js- I run Hardy Spicers, they are pretty bulletproof.


I've been in the presence when one broke. Very quick fix though.

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All fixed.

Some damage to the exhaust and the CV popped out, but all fixed so I'm happy.

Ryan :lol:

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