Need help installing rear u-joint!! ASAP

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Jun 5, 2006 | 10:04 PM

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19stang66

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RE: Need help installing rear u-joint!! ASAP

I got them in! No more vibration problems! Thanks for the help. Oh and I didnt use the snap rings. Yes, all you need to use is a needle nose pliers.

Jun 5, 2006 | 10:07 PM

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You need to use the snap rings. They hold the caps into the driveshaft.

Jun 5, 2006 | 10:10 PM

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Why did I say hog nose pliers? I must be suffering from CRS tonight. Of course, I meant needle nose. I guess I need to go feed the fish.

Jun 5, 2006 | 10:53 PM

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LOL....you had me worried there.

Jun 6, 2006 | 03:09 AM

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67t5ponycoupe

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RE: Need help installing rear u-joint!! ASAP

You don't need the snap rings on the part that goes to the rearend yoke. I will gaurantee that!

Jun 6, 2006 | 03:48 AM

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rmodel65

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RE: Need help installing rear u-joint!! ASAP

they put the extras in there cause some drive shafts have a different flang on them like late model mustangs and since it wouldnt be cost worthy to package them differently well u get the pic

Jun 6, 2006 | 11:20 AM

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Well now I've put u joints in my truck and mustang both and they used snap rings.

Jun 6, 2006 | 11:23 PM

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67t5ponycoupe

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RE: Need help installing rear u-joint!! ASAP

I agree that you must have snap rings to retain the u-joint in the drive shaft but you do not need them where the u-joint goes into the rear end yoke. They don't do anything. The caps are retained by the U-bolts and the tabs on the yoke. BTY I have never seen mustang with inside snap rings like those shown. I've done a bunch of u-joint and they were always the outside kind.

Jun 7, 2006 | 01:54 AM

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RE: Need help installing rear u-joint!! ASAP

Ohh...I must have misread that. I was thinking of the driveshaft side. My bad

Jun 7, 2006 | 02:09 AM

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rmodel65

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ORIGINAL: 67t5ponycoupe

I agree that you must have snap rings to retain the u-joint in the drive shaft but you do not need them where the u-joint goes into the rear end yoke. They don't do anything. The caps are retained by the U-bolts and the tabs on the yoke. BTY I have never seen mustang with inside snap rings like those shown. I've done a bunch of u-joint and they were always the outside kind.

my 65 uses them i likethe outeside ones myself!