Replacing Axle U-Joints on a Jeep Cherokee
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- Опубликовано: 24 ноя 2015
- Replacing Axle U joints on a front Dana 30 front axle. This process is very similar to other axle models and vehicle models but today I will show you how to do it on a Jeep Cherokee XJ. This process may be similar on other Jeep models such as the Grand Cherokee, Wrangler, and Comanche. I will show you how to do the whole job from start to finish. If you have any questions that the video does not cover make sure to leave them below.
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Good video, don't worry if people bitch because you didn't cover every possible situation. Not sure if you do mechanics for a job, haven't watched any of your other videos. That said when your working on brakes , if you haven't pressure washed it or cleaned them thoroughly first gloves gloves gloves, I cant count the number of times the instructors at school emphasized this. Asbestos may have been officially taken out of the production of brake pads and clutches, but most are made over seas and you should not trust your health to the quality control of their production. Brakes , and clutches and the dust they create should be treated as a serious hazard to your health. I know if you don't normally wear latex gloves they feel stupid for the first while, but if your hands are into automotive fluids on the regular, you can develop skin problems and sensitivity to particular fluids later on in life. Some can wreck your hands completely others can just give you a rash in response to certain chemicals. Not trying to nanny you or shit like that just want to try to save you some trouble. I am a heavy duty equipment mechanic so that is where this information comes from.
I get where you're coming from dude, but if people are like me and change pads on YOUR cars, this health issues just doesn't apply & guys like you would learn the info you provided here at the job or school of your choice.
I hate gloves!! They get in the way.
I'm 60. I wish my bought-used-in-04 '96 Laredo was half that nice! Excellent video and use of basic tools! Reminds me of me... without the floor and room!
A really OUTSTANDIN video, my man! You showed me just exactly what to do to replace the u-joint! (mine had totally destroyed itself!) THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!
Very helpful! I am currently halfway through this job on my '88 Cherokee. One hub came off readily, but on the other side It took four hours of pounding with a chisel at the flange of the hub to get the hub loose. I learned something through this exercise: before you try to get the hub out, (after you remove the bolts), cock the wheel so you can see the back of the hub (right where the U joints are located), then spray PB Blaster liberally around the circumference of the hub (where it joins the carrier) and let it soak a while. That's how I finally got the hub out!
Nice job on the video, and thanks for taking the time to make it. I've now been convinced I can do my own axle shaft U-joints.
Dude. perfect. straight and to the point. many thanks
Great video. Well thought out, easy to understand your clear and concise directions. Thanks!
Tools: Torque wrench | 19mm socket (lugs) | 1/2" socket/wrench for caliper bolts | Screw Driver to brace axle | Pliers for cotter pins | 36mm socket for axle nut | 13mm 12-point socket and wire brush for hub bolts | PB Blaster and breaker bars for rust.
You did a better job explaining this than the Haynes manual. I have to do my 88 Jeep Cherokee left side U joint.
Thank you for your post appreciated your thoroughness and time!
I really appreciate you making that video. I watched several of your other videos, you are saving me a lot of money
Excellent video. Very helpful. Among the best. Thank you!
Great job man, Thank you for posting this.
Thanks for making an easy to follow video. Really helped me out.
Thanks man, for the video, you did a great job. It's always better to see something done before you start on the task for the first time. God Bless RUclips, and thanks again.
Great video. Even i can understand how to do this. I'm pretty sure my jeep issue is the u joint. A weekend job but not as expensive as i was expecting. Thanks for explaining this. Have a great Christmas
Good video.
2 points:
Instead of jamming a screwdriver into the rotor, use the brakes to do the job they're intended for.
Don't hammer on the hub. You'll burnish the bearing accelerating bearing failure. Leave the bolts in but loose and hit the heads of the bolts. Then pry.
Well it's hard to hold the breaks when know one else is around. But I do you a different technique of just a dummy bolt I can beat on by threading in the bearing and giving it a couple wacks.
Great vid on how to change this part explains it perfectly thanks
Thank you great job and video was very helpful.
Great video! Probably a good idea to replace wheel bearings while your in there
Fine job young man! I watch this and it gives me hope for this country. Maybe all kids in this country aren't at Berkley trying to burn the nation down!
Most Boomer comment ever.
Very good video again, very clear explanation, very helpful, thanks a lot !
Nice Job!
Nice vid man. Doing my u joints as soon as they get delivered. One trick i used when i took the hub off is i left the socket on the hub bolt and hit it with my mini sledge. I went back n forth on both bolts to keep it even. Not sure if it matters but rather be safe than sorry.
great video .. easy to follow .. thank you !
You a king for this
Very good video ! Great job too ! Hope you can find a nice vice some where. My vice broke too one time. Who knew you could break them ? Good luck in the future!
You are doing a great job. Just stay within your Knowledge and Skills base and you will be very good. I liked your explanations as you go.
Nice job young man !
Great video! No issues with the inner seal when re installing the passenger side axle shaft? Thanks for posting this. Very helpful information.
Helpful. thank you! Would've liked more video on the u-joint install but I can probably get that elsewhere. Otherwise, this video is exactly what I needed to see.
Excellent, good video for an amateur like me that has an XJ that is close to 20 years old,, ha ah
Nice work
Nice job
I don't know how my sister-in-law's name and picture got on this, but I am the one doing the work, I did Auto Shop in high school, Army veteran as a wheel and track vehicle mechanic, worked as a gas jockey/mechanic at a gas station for 16 years, and like to watch these first because I don't like nasty surprises when doing things like this.
nicely done!!.
good video
I would have installed new axle seals and hub bearings while everything was apart !I know it would cost more money, and you did this on a budget. Nice work by the way.
Yeah that's true but at the time I only had a low pinion dana 30 and didn't want to put a lot of money in to it. Now I got a high pinion dana 30.
Nice.
thank u
Hi OutJeeping, I placed a new U joint but on the shorter shaft, I hammered in it a (little) bit too hard. It turns a bit stiffer but I was wondering how to fix it or if it is a problem at all?
You did good, when you put the dust shield, i said no, its backwards , then in the edit i seen you flipped it around.... also those 2 divots (wear from rust and age) where your brake shoes ride you can weld those up and regrind smooth to make you brakes work better... btw anti seze everything...for the next time you do it, 10 years from now....
Your rotors are too perfect .. lol. Funny, I broke my big assed vice trying to press the joints out, too. Took a BFH to it and they came out easily. And I'd urge caution if you use a press, you run great risk of bending yoke ears then will play hell getting the clips back in.
I use a bfh on every U-joint. Unless its just frozen. Then I turn it into a liquid
super informative video, I like the ratio of relative commentary to small talk. most videos people give their life stories between each step so definitely giving you a thumbs up on this vid. haha just curious on how many hours you'd estimate this job took you?
I could probably get this done in 2-3 hours, all depends on how fast I can get the old joints out of the shafts.
what size nut where you hammering the u joint into to get it out? thanks
So Spicer new U joints great, but would be nice to show the item part numbers not just a picture of the box.
Sometimes finding the part numbers for correct item is a pain, so why not share this info
Always place a jack stand under where you are working just in case the floor jack should come down accidently!
To get the hub off did u use a torx nut?
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Man you shattered the vice!
Would love to see the video clip of that.
It surprising wasn't a big bang, just a subtle crack. This was definitely the last time I use a vice to change u-joints.
At he relatively low,cost of breaks and ball joints I think I will replace mine when I do my u joints but for the video great job. Think new bears also because I can. They have been in use for 20 years why not
Its always good to replace stuff while you have things apart
Nice video, Not sure if I have the same problem; I have a clicking sound coming from the passenger side u joints. I pulled the tire and turned the wheel and its clear the sound is coming from the U joint. The drive shaft seem a bit loose where it fits in the axel. What do you think?2001 XJ not sure of the axel type....yet
Yeah the u joints definitely need replacing, first the joints will get dry and stiff like mine then they will wear and get really loose and make clicking noises when turning and then break eventually and that could cause a lot of damage. There shouldn't be any play in the axle shaft except for gear backlash.
6:15 - 6:20 me everytime I work on my Jeep
Use some Easy Off oven cleaner to clean all the grease it works well
Question: Did you also do the right side front axle u-joint? I'm asking because according to my Haynes Manual when removing the right side front axle, one has to first remove the Front Axle Shifter Motor. This is a bit complicated as it involved making sure the shift fork is reinstalled in the exact position it was in when removed, and also one must use a new o-ring and a new gasket. If you did both sides did you have to remove and reinstall the front axle shifter motor?
EDIT: Never mind. After doing a bit more research, I found that it was just some earlier Jeeps that had a vacuum powered shift to 4WD that had these Front Axle Shifter Motors. My '98 Cherokee does not have one and I'll bet yours doesn't have one either. For those that do, they have to remove this motor - if they don't, they will be able to pull the axle but they won't be able to get it to go back in as the shifter fork will get in the way.
Yup on later models they got rid of the vacuum disconnect axles. I also did do both sides at the same time.
@@OutJeeping I've got a '94 zj, would it have vacuum disconnect?
@@mtnstandard9227 Nope those were only found in the XJ in the late 80s and early 90s
i have a 99 jeep xj could you tell me the part number please thanks!
When taking the axle nut off i just put it in 4 wheel drive
my 93 vibrates through the steering wheel around 60-70 mph. i was hoping it was any u-joint but the axle u-joints lol
Would you be willing to provide the part number please.
What part of the country are you in? I'm in the rust belt, so nothing works easily. I planned to do u-joints on my '95 ZJ, but when I got the shafts out I found that they were so rusty that I couldn't even find the u-joint clips. To get my hub bolts out I had to heat the ears of the hub with an oxy-acetylene torch. Good thing I was replacing hubs anyway. I got delayed for a couple of days while I waited for new halfshafts and hub bolts to come from Rock Auto.
In the meantime, I decided to take apart the rusty old shaft for practice. I finally got the clips out and pressed out the caps with my Harbor Freight 12 ton press. I got stuck on the second cap. It pressed out ok, but it is fused to the cross. So far I tried to get the cap off with a pipe wrench and by clamping the cap in my vise. If I needed to make it work, next I would carefully cut the cap off with my plasma cutter.
I'm from Wisconsin so it's pretty bad here. If you are only able to get one clip out, try pounding out that cap so it will help give some room for the opposite side clip to be more exposed.
I'm in Wisconsin too! Down by Lake Geneva in the southeastern part of the state. I got all four clips out fairly easily. It was also not too bad pressing out the caps, but one of them is frozen onto the main body of the u-joint. In any case, I installed the CV shafts and they seem to be running fine for now.
nice one thanks, only it hope it takes me 15 minutes and 44 seconds to do mine.
John Withers I could get it done within an hour and a half but that's knowing how to do everything before hand.
update, it only took me 7 hours. Hubs were a bear to get off but after much pounding and swearing they finally popped off.
getting the u-joint off the axles was pretty time consuming but I really took my time. I used one of those giant c-clamps with the plunger on it to get them out (sorry don't know what they are called). The receiving end was difficult to get aligned properly and I actually managed to slightly bend one of my yokes with it. I beat on it with a hammer and was able to get back the proper clearance to get the clips in. Smooth sailing after that. Everything went back together nicely, and I feel good about spending a day in the sweltering heat fixing my own jeep. good stuff keep the videos coming.
I can have the entire axle apart in less than an hour. That being said, thats on my vehicle that ive had apart several times before lol.
what did you lube the axle shaft with? I was going to use the same stuff that I filled the diff with
Yup just the same diff fluid as I used to fill it up with.
So when I turn my jeep either left or right I hear a rotating sound...not popping or anything like that but I was wondering if it was because of the axle u joints or possibly the wheel bearing. Any thoights?
It could be any of them. It's hard to say when I'm not there in person. I would check the bearing and joints for slope or play.
@@OutJeeping yea that's what I'm gonna do. Thanks for the feedback..probably just replace both honestly as there a little rusty
Did this actually fix your vibration at 55mph? I've had a few xj's and thats usually a different issue...
At the time of this video it did fix my wobble issue, but it wasn't a death wobble.
Probably should have shown how you put the u joint into the axle shaft ....
What’s the part number on the u joints?
Just replaced the same ujoint that you did. Decided to replace the hub bearing at the same time. It was old. Now I have a BIG problem. I put everything together and now the rotor is rubbing against the spindle and the wheel will not move. It only does this after I tighten the lug nuts. If I take them off, the rotor spins free. Any ideas? Thanks for the good vid.
You got the wrong rotors or bearing hubs. They changed both in 99 and 99 was a split year so once you figure out if it was earlier or later always get those types of parts for 2000 or 1998 depending on when your 1999 was manufactured.
@@OutJeeping You were 100% right. I grabbed the wrong hub bearing. The little flange that goes inside the rotor hole was too long, pushing the whole brake assembly into the spindle. Got the right one the next day and was on the road in no time. Thank you very much.
is the procedure the same on a 94 jeep cherokee xj?
what year is your jeep?
Yes for the most part as long as you got a solid front axle.
What u joints do you use? 297 or 760? Which is stronger
Spicer 5-760X is a direct fit for 1996-2001 Jeep Dana 30's, Which are the larger size joints compared to the smaller ones used 95 and down.
Did any fluid leak out when you pulled the axle out of the transfer case?
As long as the axle is level or leaning to the opposite side you are working on, no fluid should leak out.
Axel doesn’t go into the transfer case… if it does you have a bigger problem
Hate to bash but you got no footage of the most imporant part sad thats what i need to know.
What type of u joint are u installing
Spicer U-Joints
i can't get my hub off. tried the putty knife thing plus penetrating oil. had a little progress but not much. if i was the hulk my jeep would SMASH right now
netsuj yenrav Try taking an old bolt to thread into the hub a bit then hammer on it out to break it free.
Hitting the hammer where you were on the hub is not good. That can create play in the bearings as it is a pressed together piece.
+MrBrandonM With breaking free the surfaces of the hub already it didn't really take much to get it off, I would agree though you wouldn't really want to beat on it.
Broke my breaker bar on the axle nut.
I've done the same thing, hopefully it has a lifetime warranty
dammit, my hub bolt is froze solid. tried using your method with a screwdriver, but broke it clean in half.
13:40 puts on rotor covor backwards starts tightening bolts ... skips in vid its flipped .. doesn't mention he put it on wrong at first .. just picks up where he left off. "So yeah.. when your done doing that you". Lol
Shit happens, just put everything back together like how it came off. Dont get all squirrelly from watching a free how to video online.
Bro I tried going to autozone today to buy these joints and the only thing that came up on their computer is a front drive shaft u-joint so I bought two well turns out the head on the u-joint it’s self is to small. What the fuck????? How do I find these joints??? Some GD links left in the video description would have been a huge help
Just an FYI, I have a 1987 Cherokee Pioneer 4wd with the same wheels that you have. My lug nuts are 18 mm not 19 mm. I used a 19 mm and rounded off one lug nut.
HOW MANY TIMES DID YOU WASH YOUR HANDS?!!?!
Too many, lol.
The really rusty nuts
Couldn't you just put it in 4 wheel low and it would lock up being able to take the castle nut off with out the screwdriver.
Eric Kinser doublekcustoms It depends if the other wheel is on the ground and if you had a locker too.
I still don't know how my sister-in-law got into my computer, but I am the one who did the work. However, I cheated because I used a slide hammer to pop the hub loose. Because I am a Christian, I asked for additional guidance from the Man Upstairs (G.I.language reference to Jesus Christ. Not all G.I. language words are vulgar.). Now that I am comfortable doing this, as an Army veteran, I can speed things up using the Army expedient of using applied vulgarism.
"13mm 12 point" lol hex head or 6 point is better. Especially with older vehicles. It's less likely to strip the nut..
Nope not on these hub bolts, the bolts themselves are 12 point.
you didn't show how to install the u joint which is the important part
sergio Gaetano Did I not mention that in the video?
next time spray brake cleaner on it.
Gloves, my man.
They're annoying to wear, I only wear them if it's cold or there's alot of grease
lmfao you didnt even film the most important part , installing the new u-joint , save ur time skip this video
David Frisch The purpose of this video was to show the process from start to finish on disability of the vehicle to get at the u joints. As mentioned in the video I wasn't able to film actually changing the u joint but showed how to do this. So I don't see the reason for your complaining.
useless. didnt even show putting new joint in 0-5 stars
nicholas shue Did I not mention that in the video?😂😂
Dude you literally showed the whole job except the ujoint replacement. Retitle the video.
I'm good