Universal Joint

[madcampbell]

I have had to change my UJ and found this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOEdul7nscY
link to instruction on how to do it, hope it helps someone

[MWS]

Hey Mark. What were the symptoms of your failing UJ ? Was it squealing in reverse, and intermittently rattling in forward gears ?

[madcampbell]

It was a gentle vibration through the steering wheel which grew to a shudder and then to a violent rattle (thought the windscreen was going to break at 50 mph), I thought it was my DMF breaking up which I had just replaced with one off my scrapper.

Mine snapped off on a busy roundabout in High Wycombe leaving the prop shaft on the road and me stranded.

I took off an old UJ from my scrapper and the truck now runs as smooth as you like, really surprised me because the problem appeared in the engine bay, i would never have guessed it was in the rear prop shaft UJ.

Squealing and metal rattling was my DMF, is yours a manual?

[MWS]

Thanks Mark. Different symptoms then. And no, mine's an auto.