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Richie O wrote:Axle u joints
PToombs wrote:Did you ever check the axle u-joints? Turn the front wheels a little and then spin them. If a u-joint is bad the wheel will spin hard.
Richie O wrote:PToombs wrote:Did you ever check the axle u-joints? Turn the front wheels a little and then spin them. If a u-joint is bad the wheel will spin hard.
Just like Petey boy says on page 1.
chrislib wrote:Possibly an outer u-joint at the knuckle seizing.
IrishChamp wrote: I've heard the manual ones don't have enough force to push grease sometimes.
oldestof11 wrote:Something no one addressed was the possibility that there is too much toe-in. You said the steering wheel got a little cocked after going through the ditch. Did you have an alignment done afterwards? Easiest way to check is to take 2 tape measures and get enough pulled out to go beyond each wheel about 6". Tape the ends on to the same tire, making sure that an inch mark is on the center of the tire. Now go to the opposite side and put the tapes up and see where the marks line up. Should have 0-1/8" difference, center to center.
Tacoclaw wrote:Don't know handy you are/what kind of workspace you're dealing with, but BC847 put up (another) excellent writeup about how to do this:
http://www.dieseltruckresource.com/dev/ ... 87074.html
Doing it yourself shouldn't run you more than a couple hundred bucks MAX, counting parts, and an afternoon of your time.
Tacoclaw wrote:It can't hurt to try, the main thing is a place to work at. You can beg/borrow/buy any tools you'll need. A bench-vice and torch make u-joints a lot easier, but they're not nessecities. Worst case scenario, you can take him just the axles and skip out on the dissasembly/reassembly shop charges.
On the kingpins, I just bought the plastic bushings and spring that sit over the brass cone itself. It was about $30 if I remember right, and fixed my tire-wear issues. Couldn't hurt to try it the easy way first. If your truck is particularly poorly-maintained, you might end up deeper into the kingpins, but no reason to fix it if it isn't broken.
Besides, you do it on your truck, there's always the chance you could do it to someone else's, since you'll have the tools and experience. Pretty easy to undercut $700.
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