U joints went out

[OR VietVet]

How did you remove the old plastic? The way I always did it was to heat it and melt it out.

 

[89Suburban]

Im not sure i was so pissed i didnt really look where it came from. My buddy picked up a piece of the explosion and exclaimed, "theres plastic in there?"

Yeah some of the older style U-Joints used injected plastic to hold the caps in place instead of metal clips. When you heated them up to melt them sometimes they would make a mess.

 

[Squirrelsmith]

Thats not the plastic i saw. Tried to heat mine up and nothing came out, im not sure if it had been done before or the injected plastic was so old dried up and dead that it just wasnt in there. I saw some once i pushed the bearings out but not like you would expect.

Anyway went in smooth this time and shes running beautifully! I think the u joints had been a undiagnosed problem for some time.

Now back to my to do list. Fix steering, door sag, new spider injector

 

[89Suburban]

Thats not the plastic i saw. Tried to heat mine up and nothing came out, im not sure if it had been done before or the injected plastic was so old dried up and dead that it just wasnt in there. I saw some once i pushed the bearings out but not like you would expect.

Anyway went in smooth this time and shes running beautifully! I think the u joints had been a undiagnosed problem for some time.

Now back to my to do list. Fix steering, door sag, new spider injector

Good job.

 

[liquify33]

Thats not the plastic i saw. Tried to heat mine up and nothing came out, im not sure if it had been done before or the injected plastic was so old dried up and dead that it just wasnt in there. I saw some once i pushed the bearings out but not like you would expect.

Anyway went in smooth this time and shes running beautifully! I think the u joints had been a undiagnosed problem for some time.

Now back to my to do list. Fix steering, door sag, new spider injector

Let us know if you ever fix that sag issue beyond new pins/rollers. I’m almost to the point of fabbing a 3rd hinge.

 

[dkknaebel]

Let us know if you ever fix that sag issue beyond new pins/rollers. I’m almost to the point of fabbing a 3rd hinge.

They have new hinges you can buy. I'm going to try changing doors. If that doesn't work, then I'm going to the door route. You do have to drill out the body side. One of the guys posted some great diagrams/workflows for it on my door hinge thread in exterior or interior forum.

 

[Squirrelsmith]

Let us know if you ever fix that sag issue beyond new pins/rollers. I’m almost to the point of fabbing a 3rd hinge.

Will do, i still have some play in my bushings, that will be adressed first the im going to try to use one of those lifters to bend it up slightly. Once i get it up where it should be (haha) i'll find out if the latching mechanism needs to be replaced too