Wolfpacker441
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Indian Land, SC
99 XJ with 220,000 Miles. Changed all three U-Joints on my front drive shaft last week, plus a new centering ball kit. After driving about 20 miles, I'm getting a super loud squealing from under the front half of jeep (I had my wife hop in so I could look under Jeep and she drove up and down driveway and it sounds like squeal is coming from double cardan side of front driveshaft). Squealing persists while rolling with Jeep in neutral and is synced with speed of vehicle. All signs point to that newly re-built drive shaft. Drives fine. No abnormal vibrations or other symptoms, just the noise.
I did grease all three U-Joints during re-build (they are the Moog Greasable ones). I did NOT see any sort of grease fitting near the centering ball housing. Did I miss it? I stuffed some grease into the shaft where the spring goes, but that was it. I basically followed these instructions exactly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQl68ZbMWrM&t=418s
I just crawled underneath Jeep to try to remove front D/S again to see if I could find a grease fitting for centering ball and of course immediately rounded off one of the D/S bolts on the double cardan side of the shaft...sheesh...Now I'm pretty much stuck as far as the tools that I have to work with. I've heard the "easy outs" work pretty well with removing bolts like this?
Any advice at this point?
Thank you in advance!
I did grease all three U-Joints during re-build (they are the Moog Greasable ones). I did NOT see any sort of grease fitting near the centering ball housing. Did I miss it? I stuffed some grease into the shaft where the spring goes, but that was it. I basically followed these instructions exactly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQl68ZbMWrM&t=418s
I just crawled underneath Jeep to try to remove front D/S again to see if I could find a grease fitting for centering ball and of course immediately rounded off one of the D/S bolts on the double cardan side of the shaft...sheesh...Now I'm pretty much stuck as far as the tools that I have to work with. I've heard the "easy outs" work pretty well with removing bolts like this?
Any advice at this point?
Thank you in advance!