[Spits] rear end troubles

Henry Stike stiker2126 at yahoo.com
Fri Jun 20 18:08:07 MDT 2008


Hello one and all......

Since replacing the rear wheel bearings, we noticed a clicking sound in the rear....

So, we jacked spitty up and removed rear tires......

Trying to figure out what the noise could be, even thought new U-joints were used...

What took us by surprise is the axles seem to be out of round somewhere because the whole wheel assembly, backing plate and all are kinda of wobbling around...

You can see the axles are not turning perfectly around, but out of concentric some.....

Can't  figure this out, as axles are strait, not bent and new u joints pressed in and keepers seated....

Never seen anything like this..... oh, the half shafts out of the rear end appear to be turning perfect circles...
so it seems it must be in the u-joints somewhere....

Question, Have any of you all seen this before.... any ideas?

Don & Henry


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