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[xjowner86]

nope i am not

 

[allybeehee]

thanks for that page.

 

[Spudboy]

Well, I've been working on cars for 40 years and thought I had seen just about everything, but I've never heard of someone using a pickle fork to change a u-joint. I can't even imagine how one would do that. Two sockets, hammer and a vise is the easiest way for most home mechanics.

 

[Ian Christiansen]

Where would one place a pickle fork to remove a u-joint?

 

[wolfpackjeeper]

Well, I've been working on cars for 40 years and thought I had seen just about everything, but I've never heard of someone using a pickle fork to change a u-joint. I can't even imagine how one would do that. Two sockets, hammer and a vise is the easiest way for most home mechanics.

if you can't get your head wrapped around that don't even try to figure out how you would do it with 2 other trucks and chains...


We have to be talking about different things here, there is just no way.

 

[Shorty]

I can only assume he's having trouble removing the driveshaft from the axle when he needs to remove everything and pull them apart with trucks, but I've never seen a u-joint stick into a yoke that bad.

 

[lawsoncl]

if you can't get your head wrapped around that don't even try to figure out how you would do it with 2 other trucks and chains...


We have to be talking about different things here, there is just no way.

Is he maybe talking about having removed the straps that the joint is rusted to the pinion yoke? I can see using a prybar there.

One of these days, I'll take a video or a few pictures of my u-joint technique. I figured it out right after I broke an ear on an axle shaft trying to get out a stuck joint. I have a piece of u-channel deep enough that it supports the u-joint on the sides. I put a big socket on top and press down on that with the bearing press. Result is pushing the joint itself upwards and forcing the upper cap up into the socket. Flip and repeat to push the other side out. Pushing one cap out at a time doesn't put any bending stress on the axle shaft ears.

With the regular technique, if you're pushing hard enough to flex the shaft ears, you're just binding up the caps and risking breaking something.

 

[robsjeepxj]

hard to ex plane how im from the hills

That answers it for me, but a picture of that would be awesome. Maybe he means that he uses a pickle and a fork or like a salad fork for pickles

 

[AJTorris]

I have always used sockets. One big enough for the cap to fall into and one that will fit the other side and hit the smaller socket and it will push the other side down into the big one then pull that cap of and tap it the other way.