The center u joint went out in the two piece drive line .. I got off the freeway and was costing to a stop and the truck started to vibrate like crazy... at first I thought the rearend went out... The dealer is changing the joint under war ,I have 58k on the truck.. New our old they all break soon our later..

 

Do you mean the center bearing?

 

Nope...I thought it was the center support at first... I dint feel any play in the joint but the dealer said it was bad.. The drive line was vibrating up and down real bad when i ran it on jack stands and spun the back tires... When i was at the dealer I went under a new truck and felt the play in the center support on a new truck and it was the same as mine..

 

Has anyone else lost a u joint yet?? Is the $100 deductable normal for the warranty??/

 

I lost the same joint last thurs. same situation, got off the highway and pulled away from the light and the truck felt like it had square tires :shocked:
do me a favor and check the build date on your truck and ask them to keep the joint so you can see it.

mine had a plug of hardened grease that felt like plastic jammed about .5 or .75" from the edge of the cross. I was at 53,000, and my build date was 10-02. I'm curious if they got a bad batch of joints and we may start seeing alot of failures once more guys hit 50,000+ miles

This is at least the 4th joint I have heard of and 3 of us are a few miles over 52,000 the 4th was over 100,000.


I had 2 dealers deny warrenty and the third fixed it with no deductable. I think there was supposed to be a $100 deduct, but I wasn't going to argue

page 10 of the warrenty information booklet that came with your truck says it's covered under the 7/70,000

 

I didnt see the old joint ,but I did notice that one of the u joint caps had grease comming out of it and the other cap looked dry...

I think my truck was built on 9/02

 

Wow, if I had to pay 100 bucks for a deductible, I would have changed the U joint myself. I couldn't imagine it costing nearly that much. Most U joints I have replaced have been under 30 bucks a piece.

 

Yeah...
try $133 for just the stupid joint...I'd happily pay $100 and sit in the waiting room with my laptop