I will be using my yota as my tow vehicle until i find me a full size truck that i like... So its time to do some tow vehicle maintenance. I know most of you guys have newer vehicles and really dont have to worry about this stuff , but these older trucks we got to stay on top off...This all worked out good cause i started to get a vibration between 40-50  It was telling me something and i knew what she was saying

here is the rear drive shaft, front U joint........


I think that powder you see was the bearings at one time
And these are completely dry, not one ounce of grease

this one is the rear U joint..


And the new ones that went in Heavy duty bitches................

now there is one thing i dont understand, why dont they have zerk fittings so this problem can be kept to a safer level?
I am real surprised i didnt throw that drive line right out from under the truck. I think they might even be the original U joints..

Summer is here guys, lets check our equipment... I dont want to hear about any of you guys getting broke down or in an accident because of being too lazy to check something....  I am guilty of just that... didnt want to deal with it but the Yota spoke up and i had to fix her

what kind of full size truck are you looking for?

I dunno , I guess whatever catches my eye for the right price

alot of U joints that I used to sell when I worked at autozone had zerks on them lol.

I bought these @ Autozone

how about a 91 F-350 4x4 crew cab with a 95 front end on it (courtesy of 78 cent who decided to knock over a light pole with the original front end)

A Ford 

Just joking, what are you looking to get for it

$5000.00 obo.

 Im sure its worth the price asking but I just read the F-350 part, thats probably more truck than i need.... A 1/2 ton would be fine

it's real good at launching a boat without a launch.......

I used to own a 1984 Toyota 4X4 with a turbocharged Celica motor in it (it made like 290 HP at 14 PSI boost), had a five speed trans. and 4.56 gears with 35"  BFG Mud Terrains, one day I was driving home for lunch and was doing like 40MPH and the nose of the driveline blew off the tailshaft of the trans., it hit the ground so hard it actually broke the frame at the leaf spring perches and lifted the truck about a foot and a half off the ground and filled a perfectly good pair of undershorts 

After that I actually became pretty religious about driveline maintenance, it never happened to me again and I always had a driveline hoop on my 4 wheel drive trucks...

Good catch Steve...

GT

you race people in the 2sav mobile?

now there is one thing i dont understand, why dont they have zerk fittings so this problem can be kept to a safer level?
I am real surprised i didnt throw that drive line right out from under the truck. I think they might even be the original U joints..

As a Toyota tech, I can tell you that only the 4 x 4 drivelines have greaseable u-joints. Been that way for as long as I can remember. I can't remember the laast time I had to replace a u-joint on any Toyota truck......

When you use a heavy-duty, non-greasable joint, it doesn't hurt to pull the caps and add a little grease before assembly.

lets race steve 

steve there is a nice titan down this way on the corner for 8000 obo silver xtra cab i think 4x4

Ok but to make it even i have to put my truck up on blocks too

or is it a rollin chassis yet

You just made for a funny visual of two guys sitting in dismantled trucks making "Vroom vroom" noises 

That's funny right there, I don't care who you are....

GT

Ok but to make it even i have to put my truck up on blocks too

or is it a rollin chassis yet

that hurts  i really dont even consider that a truck anymore all i have left is the cab and doors but i did just get a custom tuner for my diesel with 8 setings up tp +250hp looks like ill be needing a new trans. soon