MY wagon tailshaft

Subydoug · Post by **Subydoug** » Mon Oct 21, 2013 10:07 pm

New UJ's installed. Quiet as a whistle. Makes me hate the noisy wheel bearing in my vortex even more

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Regards

Doug

RSR 555 · Post by **RSR 555** » Mon Oct 21, 2013 10:32 pm

Subydoug wrote:New UJ's installed. Quiet as a whistle. Makes me hate the noisy wheel bearing in my vortex even more .

Regards

Doug

Quiet as a whistle? I wish my old coach used your whistles

Glad to hear it's fixed.. go the Touring Wagons

Subydoug · Post by **Subydoug** » Tue Oct 22, 2013 9:02 am

Think 85% cabin noise gone

RSR 555 · Post by **RSR 555** » Tue Oct 22, 2013 12:05 pm

Subydoug wrote:Think 85% cabin noise gone

Isn't this why stereos were invented?

Subydoug · Post by **Subydoug** » Tue Oct 22, 2013 2:49 pm

Only when the owner wires all the speakers in

. I wanna hear my motor purrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

RSR 555 · Post by **RSR 555** » Tue Oct 22, 2013 6:25 pm

I hear you bro.. Will be nice for the trip to S-Bend

Were the new one greaseable (? spelling?) and did you grease them up?

Subydoug · Post by **Subydoug** » Tue Oct 22, 2013 7:41 pm

Yeah though I got jibbed. Only gave me one nipple. I generally like 2

Applied some grease before assembly, though they had already greased up the needle rollers. Hopefully someone like toolmart or repco or something like that will have another grease nipple. Pressed together with some oil. Tapped the c clips in place with the hammer. Bob's your mothers bro!

I haven't done anything about balancing it yet. When I took it for a spin the other day (been driving the tex ATM

) it felt smooth as egg's, though I didn’t get about about 80km/h. Il just keep some big zipties handy and balance it as needed.

Regards

Doug

RSR 555 · Post by **RSR 555** » Wed Oct 23, 2013 4:26 am

You only need 1 nipple (unless we are talking about something else here

) as the UJ has cross drilled holes through the centre of them. Don't worries about the weight unbalancing them, as they probably only weigh about 2grams. If you feel you need to rebalance, then take down to Truckline in Kewdale but IMO you shouldn't need to.

Subydoug · Post by **Subydoug** » Wed Oct 23, 2013 8:53 am

Well I did both the front and rear uj, but only got 1 nipple between the two. Deffinately thread hole for the missing nipple so Il chase one down, maybe from (gulp) pirtek.

Regards

Doug