I just replaced my u-joints about a month ago and there starting to act up again. Is this something caused by my driving habbits? Or should i splurge and get some spicers? Is it possible to blow a seal in one or something because when i greased up one of em i used like a 3,000psi grease gun n loaded er up and some squirted out around the bearing cap. Could this be the reason it only lasted a month?

 

Buying name brand parts in never a bad thing, when you grease your u-joints, ball joints, whatever...you don't want the grease spurting out. But I highly doubt that's the reason the joints failed so quickly. I remember when I had new joints put in my work truck, the guy at the shop said he had to debur the yoke a little and said that's what probably caused the joint failure because it was'nt allowing the needle bearings to spin freely. Usually I do this type of thing myself, but being my first Ford truck I've let shops do all the work for write off purposes, and...my step father is in the national gaurd and services black hawks and apaches called me one afternoon to help change his u-joints on his ranger. Tried the usual socket/hammer trick and did'nt faze it. Being the government had so many bad *** tools at our disposal I threw it in their hydraulic press-get this, 70 tons psi later it finally popped out. Little while later the guy that works in that room was over shooting the **** and we told him the story and he said we're lucky to be alive, at that kind of pressure if something would've broke and flew the wrong way it could have went through either one of us. Lucky I guess, but it still sounded cool when she finally popped.