Deerhunter30
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I sold my pickup yesterday and picked up a 1983 CJ7 with hard top and A/C. I only got a half mile from the guy's house and the drive shaft fell out. Just to let you know, this is a clean jeep and well maintianed. But somehow one of the bolts on one of the rear u-joint straps had came loose and fallen out. Well I called the guy to bring me my tools (I had left all the stuff from inside my truck inside my house). After two trips we finally had the correct tool...a 12 point 1/4" box end wrench. I took the drive shaft out and drove home in "front wheel drive". Luckily for me, my brother-in-law works at a drive line shop, so we put new u-joints and yokes in it and it's running fine now. he did suggest that later we lengthen the back drive shaft and put it in front and build a new drive shaft for the back to beef up the drive line. AHHHHH the Jeep experience begins![addsig]
I sold my pickup yesterday and picked up a 1983 CJ7 with hard top and A/C. I only got a half mile from the guy's house and the drive shaft fell out. Just to let you know, this is a clean jeep and well maintianed. But somehow one of the bolts on one of the rear u-joint straps had came loose and fallen out. Well I called the guy to bring me my tools (I had left all the stuff from inside my truck inside my house). After two trips we finally had the correct tool...a 12 point 1/4" box end wrench. I took the drive shaft out and drove home in "front wheel drive". Luckily for me, my brother-in-law works at a drive line shop, so we put new u-joints and yokes in it and it's running fine now. he did suggest that later we lengthen the back drive shaft and put it in front and build a new drive shaft for the back to beef up the drive line. AHHHHH the Jeep experience begins![addsig]