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Subject: [Spits] rear end troubles
From: Henry Stike <stiker2126@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:08:07 -0700 (PDT)
Hello one and all......

Since replacing the rear wheel bearings, we noticed a clicking sound in the 
rear....

So, we jacked spitty up and removed rear tires......

Trying to figure out what the noise could be, even thought new U-joints were 
used...

What took us by surprise is the axles seem to be out of round somewhere because 
the whole wheel assembly, backing plate and all are kinda of wobbling around...

You can see the axles are not turning perfectly around, but out of concentric 
some.....

Can't  figure this out, as axles are strait, not bent and new u joints pressed 
in and keepers seated....

Never seen anything like this..... oh, the half shafts out of the rear end 
appear to be turning perfect circles...
so it seems it must be in the u-joints somewhere....

Question, Have any of you all seen this before.... any ideas?

Don & Henry
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