Will,
That was a "secret". Now you let the cat out of the bag!!!
In actuality, after my experience, I would caution against grinding the
cups. I found that after doing that, the flange must have regained its
original shape, because in a short while, the clunk was back and
apparantly was caused by the cup being too small. I replaced the
U-Joint again and it magically went away.
It is my humble opinion that those yokes are easily compressed, giving
the impression that the U-Joints are too long for the clips to fit. I
would recommend if anybody experiences this phenominum, to try to expand
the flange rather than grinding the cups.
The operative word here is "patience"
Regards,
Joe Curry
toad@nlights.net wrote:
>
> HM>I followed the part of the thread on the "clunk" when shifting. It happens
> HM>that I have been experiencing the same thing when I shift. My Spit has a
> HM>little over 60 k and it probably wouldn't hurt to replace the u-joints even
> HM>it turns out that isn't the source of the "clunk". What I could use are
>som
> HM>tips on how to replace the 3 u-joints on the Spit (79).
>
> The job is pretty straightforward...in theory. HOWEVER, and Joe can back
> me up on this, beware of ujoints that just don't quite fit in the
> housing. So far, I haven't found a brand of ujoint that really fits. As
> I recall, my rear passenger side ujoint has a circlip that won't go all
> the way in...the cup sticks out just a hair too much. I had this exact
> same problem with the previous rear axle that I scrapped out because I
> thought that the housing was too damaged to use. I think Joe actually
> ground off a little of one of the cups to make his fit.
>
> Has anyone else experienced this problem?
>
> Will
> 76 spit on road
> 76 spit off road
> 78 Midget perpetually on hold.
> 59 Humber; a brake hose and spark plug wire away from running (sort of).
>
> to: INT:HMENTZEN@aol.com
> cc: INT:triumphs@autox.team.net
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