In the quest to conquer weird noises and vibrations in this Jeep that I’ve owned for about 8 months now, I’m replacing the U-joints in the front driveshaft. I go over the details on doing u-joints in the video I made for the rear driveshaft so in this video I mostly focus on the double cardan joint, the center yoke, and replacing the grease slinger.
In replacing the center yoke, I try to find the ‘secret sauce’ for installing the u-joint on the yoke. It’s not what you’d expect.
I drove around with the front driveshaft off for about two months before I did this job and a lot of the noises up front and the vibrations were gone. With the front driveshaft back installed but with new u-joints, still no noises or vibrations, so I’d call it a success!
Project TJ is the chronicling of working on my 1997 Jeep Wrangler. It's the SE version of a TJ with a 2.5L four cylinder and a standard transmission. At the time of making this video, the Jeep had ~204,300 miles on it.
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Torque Values:
• Driveshaft to Transfer Case: 240 in-lbs (20 ft-lbs)
• Driveshaft to Front Axle (if you can get a torque wrench on them): 168 in-lbs (14 ft-lbs)
Parts:
• CV-544-3 Jeep CV Driveshaft Centering Yoke 1310 Series Rebuild Kit with 3 U-Joints): www.dennysdriveshaft.com/p341...
Reference video:
• KSuspension’s “Double Cardan Drive Shaft Rebuild”: • Double Cardan Drive Sh...
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Intro (0:00)
Remove old u-joints (2:37)
Old centering yoke (3:50)
Old grease slinger (4:38)
New grease slinger (6:35)
New u-joints (7:12)
New centering yoke (10:43)
Getting the last cap on the centering yoke (13:24)
Installing the driveshaft (17:09)
Final Thoughts (18:24)
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