I hardly drive the dodge and tonight when I drove to the upholstery shop the same rear tire that locked up before I left to the Crawl in October took a s*** again.
I keept on hearing a lil' squicky noise like the ones that the Ujoint make for lack of lubrication.
I noticed that last week but I thought it was a ujoint.
...then the damn tire locked up in the middle of a big intersection/avenue near the house.
...since I had previously experienced this thing, I drove slowly, crossed the intersection, and parked to check it out.
it happened the same thing, passenger rear axel shaft was out about a 1/4 of an inch. Wife and kids were wondering what had heppened.
I told them, "Nothing, we just need to go slow"
..so we went slow for a few blocks and barely made it home.
Once at home, I went back to check the damn axel shaft and it was out even more. Scary because I had my wife and the boys with me but glad that it was near home and not on the road in the middle of nowhere w/ a loaded trailer in the dark.
At this point, I know the bearing is gone and there's a 90% chances that the race is whelded to the spindle. (Funny, but last Saturday I fixed the same thing on the 14 bolt of the 40. the bearing was gone and the race was still in good shape)
I have not seen it yet, but that's what happened the last time back in October when we fixed it.
We made sure to put a lot of grease in the bearing and hub and now the axelshaft locked up again.
I will take a look at this sometime next week or after thanks giving
There was plenty of grease on the bearings and it was running fine before we did anything to it.
What the hell is causing this thing?
where is the grease going? there was no sign of grease/oil leak like in the 14 bolt
Any help will be appreciated.
the differential is a dana 70.
I keept on hearing a lil' squicky noise like the ones that the Ujoint make for lack of lubrication.
I noticed that last week but I thought it was a ujoint.
...then the damn tire locked up in the middle of a big intersection/avenue near the house.
...since I had previously experienced this thing, I drove slowly, crossed the intersection, and parked to check it out.
it happened the same thing, passenger rear axel shaft was out about a 1/4 of an inch. Wife and kids were wondering what had heppened.
I told them, "Nothing, we just need to go slow"
..so we went slow for a few blocks and barely made it home.
Once at home, I went back to check the damn axel shaft and it was out even more. Scary because I had my wife and the boys with me but glad that it was near home and not on the road in the middle of nowhere w/ a loaded trailer in the dark.
At this point, I know the bearing is gone and there's a 90% chances that the race is whelded to the spindle. (Funny, but last Saturday I fixed the same thing on the 14 bolt of the 40. the bearing was gone and the race was still in good shape)
I have not seen it yet, but that's what happened the last time back in October when we fixed it.
We made sure to put a lot of grease in the bearing and hub and now the axelshaft locked up again.
I will take a look at this sometime next week or after thanks giving
There was plenty of grease on the bearings and it was running fine before we did anything to it.
What the hell is causing this thing?
where is the grease going? there was no sign of grease/oil leak like in the 14 bolt
Any help will be appreciated.
the differential is a dana 70.
