Nixt
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Plimmerton, New Zealand
Searched the forums, plenty on rear output shafts and SYEs to be found but nothing about front yoke&shafts or how-to's on them.
Took my new-to-me jeep in to a mechanic to diagnose vibration at a wide range of speeds under load - what I figured was a bad u-joint. Feel it mostly through feet and dash, so I was thinking front end somewhere.
But all of the U-joints seem ok to him (and to me once I could wiggle at them with a bar), but we discovered a fair bit of play in the front yoke shaft coming out of the TC. This seems like it is the vibe source to him.
My questions:
1- how much (if any) play is OK/tolerable?
2- will pulling the front shaft help me make a positive ID of the problem?
3- could tightening the bolt on the end of the output shaft help or is that just for the seal?
4- how hard is it to replace the bearing(s), if that is what needs to be done?
TIA
Took my new-to-me jeep in to a mechanic to diagnose vibration at a wide range of speeds under load - what I figured was a bad u-joint. Feel it mostly through feet and dash, so I was thinking front end somewhere.
But all of the U-joints seem ok to him (and to me once I could wiggle at them with a bar), but we discovered a fair bit of play in the front yoke shaft coming out of the TC. This seems like it is the vibe source to him.
My questions:
1- how much (if any) play is OK/tolerable?
2- will pulling the front shaft help me make a positive ID of the problem?
3- could tightening the bolt on the end of the output shaft help or is that just for the seal?
4- how hard is it to replace the bearing(s), if that is what needs to be done?
TIA
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