Can I get heavy duty U-joints?

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I remember someone mentioning something about heavy duty U-joints. My 76 CJ-7 trashed a rear axle U-joint after a couple hard jaunts through the swamp. Any advice on getting a stronger U-joint that I can still grease without having to remove it from the driveline? (I can't get a grease gun on the fitting) o_o_o_o Best Regards, /| ,[_____], Jim, WP3JQ |¯¯¯L --O|||||||O- ()_)¯()_) ¯¯¯¯¯ )_) EM60qk 30.447439N 086.628959W

L.W.(ßill) · Accepted Answer

Hi Jim,     I use whatever the local store sells:

Drink · Answer

Easier than I thought.  I just asked the parts guy at O'Reilly's for a HDU-joint and he gave it to me.  FYI: Precision Universal Joints makes the HDversion and it's just what the Dr. (me) ordered.  It boasts steel alloycross, HD end caps and is greasable through a fitting that goes into one ofthe caps vice the cross, so it's truly greasable without having to removethe driveshaft just to get at the fitting.  They cost me just under $20 apiece ($12 per joint for the regulars).                                 o_o_o_o  Best Regards,      /| ,[_____],    Jim, WP3JQ  |¯¯¯L --O|||||||O-                        ()_)¯()_) ¯¯¯¯¯ )_)EM60qk         30.447439N 086.628959W

Drink · Answer

Thanks Bill. I changed more than a couple of U-joints and was pretty twisted when I couldn't grease these. Haha! I'm batting 0% this week! Sheesh. The carb's pissin' me off, the little gear in the ignition switch snapped in the cold, crushed U-joint. What could go wrong now? No, wait. I could crawl under there and find out that it's a premature failure of the pinion bearing:(

BTW, isn't this a pretty weird statement for a grease gun?!: "WARNING: Never point nozzles, adapters or couplers at any part of the body or another person!" They tell me that for every warning, there's an idiot with a grease gun...

L.W.(ßill) · Answer

Hi Jim,     There many warnings placed on packaging, but that warning coupledwith the thousand pound grease gun used by lube stations is a good one.Many rumors of station attendants loosing a hand after infection causedby the injection of grease. Injections just like this ARMY picture ofme:          God Bless America, ßill O|||||||Omailto:     Dr

William Oliveri · Answer

Geeze Bill, Only 2 arms?  They sure messed up.  They could'a had a nursebehind you giving you one in the @ss.:-)

Wblane · Answer

Damn, you're still a kid Bill! How did you learn so much about jeeps in such ashort lifespan. Were you in Korea or Vietnam Bill?-Bill (remove "botizer" to reply via email)

L.W.(ßill) · Answer

Went to Germany, I feel very guilty because the artillery battalionI may have been assigned to suffered nearly a hundred percent casualtiesin the first days of Vietnam American involvement of 1964 and '65, afterthat they figured out self-propelled and rice paddies didn't mix. Thiswas my best friend:  I still cry.        God Bless America, ßill O|||||||Omailto:     Wblane wrote:

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