[TR] TR driveshaft U-joints

[carlsereda]

Gary,
Seems the factory balance on the TR drive shafts was pretty good but sometimes a slight and difficult to locate vibration is caused by a slightly off balanced driveshaft. I have changed a dozen u-joints in the past but this time decided to take my cleaned-by-me driveshaft (I had bought a used shaft with better slider joint splines than my 200,000 mile original) to a local 'driveline' shop from Yellow Pages (these guys do hundreds of shafts a month). I provided my own Hardy-Spicer u-joints. The owner of shop welded two washers the size of dime and a nickel in a couple different places to fine tune the balance - then painted all black. The charge; $50.00. 
Good luck with whatever you do.
Carl
'63TR4 since '74
Since I'm restoring a tr-3 ground up I decided to renew the u-joints. How in 
the H is one supposed to get the caps off? The book says drive the cap out 
until it's proud of the surface and then pull out with your fingers. UH HUH 
lol. Maybe from a fairly new car but from one with 50 yrs. of rust? There's no 
way to pull them out..........nothing to grip.