I think Red Alert's rear end just failed...

[white97z28]

Praying for you that its just a ujoint!!

[QuickTop]

Sucks to hear about that..
my guess would be driveshaft u-joint related because youve been fiddling around there lately. Hope its nothing serious.

[hoogiesngrinderz]

The spider gears in my Jimmy blew apart at speed, pretty violent jolt and a ton of noise.

My Saturn SC2 literally blew the diff and the spider gears out of the car. The force behind that one lifted the front end of the car off the road, stalled the engine, and filled the cabin with smoke. My first thought was the airbags deployed for no reason.


Time to dig in!

[BP_Z28]

Exactly what happened to green Camaro at MIS during superfest that one year. Ended up being my trans, hope your luck is better.

[1BADAIR]

It will be the last part you check

[mcalus]

Did you try driving it on he flat bed? What did it sound like when you were pulling off to the shoulder?

[meissen]

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I don't think the month old ujoint I just had pressed in should look like that.

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[nascarnate326]

Glad it's a cheap fix!

[meissen]

IMHO it should have been a free fix since they ****ed up the ujoint. Really pisses me off that I paid to have a shop do it so I would know it's done right and a little over a month later and ~300 miles the cap comes off.

To add to the anger, they're now saying the aluminum driveshaft is junk. Where the cap goes is egged and no good.

So back to the steel driveshaft I go. He atleast agreed to warranty BOTH of my u-joints so I would have new u-joints in the steel driveshaft, but I have to pay the $50 labor. I guess it's better than taking the driveshaft somewhere else and paying $100 for new ujoints.

What a mess. Aluminum DS - $50, new ujoints to "do it right" - $100, tow home - $120, labor to switch back to the steel driveshaft - $50... $320 lesson...

[Lucky SOB]

Hmm... Still thinking optispark

[farmington]

Sounds expensive for u-joints. When I got my aluminum shaft I got two new joints put on for $50 including labor

[hoogiesngrinderz]

Labor should be around $20

[MP81]

IMHO it should have been a free fix since they ****ed up the ujoint.

Then why isn't it free? If it was their fault, I'd of expected them to foot the bill for everything...

[meissen]

Can I definitively say that the ujoint cap falling off after only a month and ~200 miles is their fault? The more I think about it the more I think I should be demanding a free fix considering I'm eating the $120 tow bill...

[Boost Addict]

You shouldn't have to pay for shit.