Reply to "U-Joint Recommendations"

Extreme caution would be prudent when messing with the half shafts. You cannot image how bad it can be if you have a half shaft failure at speed including ending up in the ditch or worse. The timing of your failure was a very lucky one!!! Those shafts are quite heavy and the force they can exert is incredible when they let loose. If you are very lucky they keep turning, bashing the holy heck out of the body or ZF causing big $ repairs and don’t lock up the wheel. If you are not going to replace the shafts with new ones (my recommendation) you will need to take them apart to look at the U joint bearings and at that point it doesn’t make much sense not to just replace the U joints. U joints are not very expensive and it is an easy job unless the caps are corroded to the yokes. Also if you plan on cleaning them, the solvent may wick into the bearing caps so that might not be a good idea unless you are going to replace the U joints.

Mike