I know, I actually had an appt. for tomorrow morning at another shop to see if they could figure it out. I was figuring on spending that much...lol....and it would be great if our trucks had greasable suspension, steering and drive train parts...lol...there is not one grease fitting anywhere on these trucks unless you have replaced factory parts with aftermarket greasable ones...

 

which u joint was that?

 

(Thinks a 18VDC DeWalt impact is a great investment)

 

What kind of vibration were you having? I have rebalanced my tires twice and then I get a vibration that only get worse when I step on the brake. (like a broken belt in a tire but it's not). Thought it was a wheel bearing. Nope all four are good.

 

I have pneumatic impact, would not budge them. Had to put a 2 ft extension pipe on the socket wrench to get enough leverage to turn them. I swear it was like stainless on stainless galling...but it was just the locktite.

My vibration was under acceleration only. and when I got up to @75 mph. Terrible, shook the whole d@mn truck. It also made a terrible noise under hard acceleration, somewhere between one of those wooden turkey call sounds and birds chirping....

 

Oh ok. That's not my problem. Thanks Kent!

 

great job finding the problem man.

 

rear joint on the rear driveshaft

 

may have to look into this, with the amount of abuse the truck takes, nice find

 

So what did the bearings look like under the other 2 caps.. i'm betting the cap on the right with the busted seal was in pretty bad shape too...