So got off the highway today and dropped my rear drive shaft, put her in 4 high and nursed it the tenth of a mile to my work parking lot. Had it towed home and am going to look at it tonight, hopefully the yoke and driveshaft are salvageable.
Yikes. Looks like it started as a broke u joint. Then slapped around and beat everything up. Were you hearing any racket from u joint? They are usually giving off indicator noises before going out.
It's an 03 wrangler, I felt some vibrations this morning on my way to work (35 mile drive) no noise with it. I thought when I started coming to work "I need to see whats going on" and then it just let go getting off of the BA onto memorial. Very little notice and it was not a big vibration, very minimal.
Ohhhh boy! It's story time.......So there I was driving back home to Sarcoxie, MO which is East of Joplin from down off in Arkansas. I'd been down to a cattle sortin and had 9 horses in the gooseneck stock trailer. At that time I was driving a 2001 F350 crew cab dually. Not sure why I bought that particular truck other than it looked cool. I had one similar but it wasn't a crew cab and it had nothing fancy. The one I was driving this night had a like a 4" lift, big pipe bumpers, winch, bed rails made out of 4" pipe, a big headache rack with 6 or 8 of those big KC highlights on it, she had dual whip antennas on the mirrors and was white with like kinda metallic ghost flames coming up the hood and from front to back on the fenders. Light had to be just right to see the flames. My trailer was riding on a big rake and horses had to hang on so they didn't slide to the back. I'm rollin up 71 (now I think it's I-49) just north of Anderson, MO pulling that long hill and......pop! The RPMs shot up and I grabbed the handshaker and started trying every hole. Nooooooop, I told wife that I was pretty sure we just slung the driveshaft. We slid over to the side and I walked the ditch back. It was dark and I didn't have a flashlight but I got the driveline found and thrown in the back of the monster truck. I then hopped in the cab and wife said, what we gonna do? I said we gonna drive it home in front wheel drive like them rice burners n such. Yup truck never missed a lick. Fixed it the next day. I didn't own that truck long. It always got me home but man I had lots of things go wrong driving it. I think it had a curse. But, I must say, I've learned a bunch having to work on things and having to figure out how to get the job done on the fly.
Yikes . . . hopefully you can get it fixed up fast.
Well I got the rear driveshaft out, looks like I'm doing 2 U-joints and a couple of new straps. Put it in 4 high and drove it around the block, looks like the wife is putting around town in a front wheel drive jeep for a few days. I think I might go borrow a couple of food trays from McDs and try tray sliding out.
Thankfully it didnt do much beyond that.
When I lost a front driveshaft on my Cummins...it took out the transfer case with it...200 miles from home. Took the driveshaft out on the side of the road and drove home not realizing the TC was busted...but it got me there.
When I lost a front driveshaft on my Cummins...it took out the transfer case with it...200 miles from home. Took the driveshaft out on the side of the road and drove home not realizing the TC was busted...but it got me there.
You might want to check the pinion angle if it's lifted. I went through a lot of U-joints on an 80 model Bronco due to a lift and 38.5" tires.
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