Dennis_MN Posted May 10, 2011 Report Posted May 10, 2011 While the rear end is in, I now have a vibration problem with my drive shaft. The U-joint shop changed the rear yoke to a Jeep yoke so that I can use the standard Jeep U-joint. When I installed it I got a terrible vibration so I re-read all of the posts and discovered "phasing" which I then tried and still no progress. So I took it in to the shop with the other end from the transmission so that I had u-joint to u-joint to balance with. The shop noted that the splined section only went in about 1 inch and they thought the drive shaft was too short so they had me measure the distance from center to center from the yoke on the transmission to the yoke on the rear end. Their opinion was that the spline portion of the shaft was too worn for them to get in a good balance. They asked if I could take off the yoke on the transmission and replace it with something different. So my question is how easy does that yoke come off of the transmission? It looks like four bolts and it seems that they are accessable from the e-brake disk. Except for the large bolt in the center. I don't know if that is involved or not. Anyone know? Quote
Dan Babb Posted May 10, 2011 Report Posted May 10, 2011 (edited) I just checked..just remove the 4 nuts. The center bolt stays. Edited May 10, 2011 by Dan Babb Quote
41/53dodges Posted May 10, 2011 Report Posted May 10, 2011 yep, unless this is a big truck thats how it works Quote
Dennis_MN Posted May 11, 2011 Author Report Posted May 11, 2011 Well, I crawled under and removed the four bolts and nothing moved so I figured that I was stuck. Sure enough that large center bolt actually, 1 5/16 had to come off. I borrowed some big tools and pushed it with my leg and got that sucker off, along with the e-brake hub. I brought the transmission yoke and the e-brake hub down to the shop and they are going to get a new yoke piece to go into the transmission, drill the e-brake hub to fit and then add a new spline section to my drive shaft. I'll end up with modern u-joints on each end and the worn spline section will be new. More work than I imagined in my wildest dreams but then I'm not done yet. Quote
MBF Posted May 11, 2011 Report Posted May 11, 2011 I was going to say something yesterday, but I wasn't sure if I remembered it correctly. Last year when I did my ebrake, speedy sleeve and rear seal on my 3 spd. I thought I remembered that the center nut had to come off-the four bolts were to hold the flange on the drum. Mike Quote
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