boise49ers
NAXJA Forum User
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- Boise,Idaho
I broke a front axle shaft this last weekend and now my semi new ball joint on that side is toast. It can probably be pulled out by hand if I tried hard enough.
Is it common to wipe out a ball joint when the u-joint and shaft clanges around after being broken ? I drove it about a mile to get back to a level area to pull it. I have since learned a lesson to pull it where it is broke after wasting the ears of the shaft.
If this does occur sometimes with broken u-joints/shafts do new ones usually go in OK with out replacing the housing ? The shop I took it to are worried the machined holes the ball joints go in are honed out from the age of the axle.
They didn't think about the shaft banging the ball joint out. They figured it just fell out. I didn't either until I ran the problem by a couple other XJ guys.
Is it common to wipe out a ball joint when the u-joint and shaft clanges around after being broken ? I drove it about a mile to get back to a level area to pull it. I have since learned a lesson to pull it where it is broke after wasting the ears of the shaft.
If this does occur sometimes with broken u-joints/shafts do new ones usually go in OK with out replacing the housing ? The shop I took it to are worried the machined holes the ball joints go in are honed out from the age of the axle.
They didn't think about the shaft banging the ball joint out. They figured it just fell out. I didn't either until I ran the problem by a couple other XJ guys.
:sunshine: Any tips from experiance would be greatly appreciated. :sunshine: