U-joint install tools

[dulcich]

Braub's driveshaft misfortune got me thinking about u-joints. So, what do you use to put them in? Press? Vice and some sockets? Those techniques are for chumps and losers. All you need is a BFH and the right touch to do it right. Those cups will slide in smooth as butter, and much less a chance of distorting the yoke or damaging parts.
-dulcich

[SuperBuickGuy]

that depends on whether or not your hammer-swinging technique has been likened to an old lady swatting flies with a broom.

[Brian Lohnes]

When I worked at the gas station in high school, the mechanic, an old guy named Manny would blast them in with a BFH...no BS. I suck at life bad enough as it is, so I am a vice/socket guy and if I can mooch it, a press kinda dude.

Sorry unk.

[andy30thz]

Yep, BFH and a vice.

Except those damn GM shafts that have the F'n nylon retention. Need to burn that out first before you wield the big hammer!

[dulcich]

When I worked at the gas station in high school, the mechanic, an old guy named Manny would blast them in with a BFH...no BS. I suck at life bad enough as it is, so I am a vice/socket guy and if I can mooch it, a press kinda dude.

Sorry unk.

I should post a vid and show you kids how it's done. The BFH system makes those cups glide in as smooth as as a silk dress off a Vegas whore, with no chance of pinching and distorting the yoke. I've seen plenty of yokes damaged by the brute force of a vice or press.
-dulcich

[Brian Lohnes]

The old man at the gas station was like Miagi with that thing. He'd line 'er up and WHAMO! One shot every time.

[Dan Barlow]

Been a few years since I've done any but , I think I use a hammer and a socket or two.

[dulcich]

Been a few years since I've done any but , I think I use a hammer and a socket or two.

Sockets are for turning bolts; the proper wielding of a hammer is for putting in U-joints.
-dulcich

[Thumpin455]

Heh.. I have a press, but I use a BFH and a drift I made from a broken 1/2" ratchet. Got it down to a science after all these years, takes me all of 15 minutes.

[383S-10]

I think we should have a technique showdown to see which is best.......and for me to learn new ways of doing u joints.....

[squirrel]

hammer, and some sockets, and a 2x4. And I don't heat the Saginaw joints to remove them, I just use the hammer and sockets.

I also have a special tool I made that supports the cross on a U joint to help remove it.

The trans shop I worked at years ago had a special tool for doing that, I think it was from Lempco, but my memory is failing me

[Deaf Bob]

Hammer, brass drift, sockets, cussing...all work good... Vise... Never had one big nuff..

[dulcich]

You guys need to keep the sockets and drifts in the toolbox. The hammer alone does the work, and drives it together so smoothly its like poetry. Squirrel is right, though, you need to support the cross.
-dulcich

[Barry Donovan]

I got in a habit of seeing how rigs were done, they may be easier than an 80s subaru. in fact. yes. they are easier than 80s subaru.

I tried fixing the little wagon the hammer way.. to found out they make nothing to repair them with..and if a subaru eats a yoke, scrap the whole car.

(that advice was real )

unless you are a unibody welding mad man...it will do it again.

that still makes me wonder if a split shaft can go into brians cop car. error would have stayed at one end of a problem.

[dulcich]

I got in a habit of seeing how rigs were done, they may be easier than an 80s subaru. in fact. yes. they are easier than 80s subaru.

I tried fixing the little wagon the hammer way.. to found out they make nothing to repair them with..and if a subaru eats a yoke, scrap the whole car.

(that advice was real )

unless you are a unibody welding mad man...it will do it again.

that still makes me wonder if a split shaft can go into brians cop car. error would have stayed at one end of a problem.

The spilt shaft problems subjugate the reality of chrome and nickel enhanced iron. If four pistons, two in tandem synchronize at 180-degrees, the god particle becomes known to physics, but the link fragile and flawed. Two joints, fighting angular acceleration and deceleration, per half rotation, a schism to constant velocity perfection. Tubular form, yes, concentric and proper, fighting and bound by angular acceleration. The shaft suffers, twisted and distorted prey it is of angular acceleration.
-B3M - - er -dulcich