Driveshaft Woohs!

[jps4jeep]

Well I was on my way home from work today, left a little early, real nice weather, take a turn and BAMM my rear U-Join disinigrated and the drive shaft looped around and dented the floor boards and the muffler (which is already beat up from tree stumps.) Now this all happens in dorchester. If you don't know boston, this is like compton! Mad gangsters, lots of guns, not nice place (at least where I was) so I pulled the drive shaft off, I carry a spare U-joint but I didn't have new straps (they got all mangled) and I didn't have a hammer or press to remove the POS autozone $5 u-joint! So I used two trash bags and duct tape to seal up the slip yoke to get me home! By the way it is a 25 mile drive to my house from there! Well I got home, Damage report!

Need new pinion shaft yoke (this is not the forst time it has happened and the yoke was pretty beat)
Drive shaft bent.
Need new straps, Got Spicer
Need U-joint Again I am using spicer, I will leave My spare autozone joint as a emergency spare!
About a quart of ATF

I had to go to jpb #2 so I ran out of time to finish the fix!, just need to put in the new u-joint. The saddest part is, I ordered my SYE about three hours before this happened!!

Johnny

 

[jeepinstien]

Good thing you ordered the SYE. I had a similar thing happen but I bent the tail shaft and grenaded the housing. Had to buy a new shaft and housing untill my SYE came in.

 

[Tug-n-pull]

Sounds like Murphys law was in full swing that day. tug

 

[jps4jeep]

I was lucky, I was only going like 4 mph when it happened! Last time It happened, I was also going slow so I am lucky. Should be able to do the SYE some time next weekend!

 

[Jeepster05]

Happened to me when I was leaving school last year. like you I was very lucky and was only goin 2 mph.

 

[jps4jeep]

Well, I finished the fix today, and drove up to Epping NH for the IHRA drag races and the "night of fire" at New England Drag Way, and it shook like George Jefferson on speed! My drive shaft looks like a banana, well not that drastic, but it is bad. Can't wait to get the SYE in and forget that this ever happened!