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Re: UJ's Again

To: Dave Chu <dave@ece.concordia.ca>
Subject: Re: UJ's Again
From: jak0pab@jak10.med.navy.mil (Bowen, Patrick A. RP2)
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 12:14:47
I visually checked them but did not take a wrench to 'em.  Do I need to do
that?

At 10:54 AM 10/27/98 -0500, Dave Chu wrote:
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>In message <3.0.5.16.19981027110832.42df76b8@jak10.med.navy.mil>you write:
>>OK, I checked out my U-joints this weekend and could not find any play in
>>them.  Maybe I was checking the wrong thing.  I could not find any
>>looseness in the U-joints, but I did turn the driveshaft by hand and it
>>would rock about an 1/8th of a turn and I could hear it clunk.  What is
>>going on here, is my Differential causing the problem.  The most noticeable
>>sign is a single pop when accelerating or shifting up under acceleration.
>>Patrick Bowen
>
>  Patrick, have you check to see if all the nuts and bolts between the
>  drive-shaft and the flange are not loose?
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Patrick Bowen
'79 Spitfire
Jacksonville FL

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