What are the best universal joints available?

Jeep Tech
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I hear Spicer are good? I dont want to get cheap ones, is it even worth it to buy the best ones available in that part?

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If you can afford Spicer buy them!

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Like most things, Spicer is no longer made here in the USA. Caps, crosses, bearings are outsourced to various places overseas. I guess time will tell on the quality of the China made Spicers. (The boxes are printed in the USA though! Woo-hoo!)
I used Moog/Precision the last time I changed out my axle u-joints, they were actually beefier than the Spicer and they’ve been good so far. Made here in the USA.

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moog

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I won’t use anything except Spicer.

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I had a brand new shaft made with spicer joints and the crosses are stamped USA

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98XJ…I looked them up there only 30 bucks? Was I looking at the wrong items? How much do they run? I need 3 of them. One is gone and just gonna replace the other two while I’m under there.

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Spicer 1310’s for driveshafts can be had for less than $20.

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My mechanic told me were gonna replace all three on the drive shaft area. So are the 1310s good for all three? Where can I get them around the attleboro area? I called napa and autozone and neither of them carry them

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Crown Outlet in Canton sells the spicer’s at a good price. Cockroft in East providence is also a spicer dealer. I used precision to replace the 2-2 year old spicer u-joints i snapped in my front axles in august. By October (2 runs later), one snapped.

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The Places I would get the u-joints from are ExtremeTerrain.com or Quadratrec.com I included the link for both sites to the 1310’s

http://www.quadratec.com/products/52302_100.htm?sgsc=C6Z06ZR1C6Z06ZR1&utm_medium=compshop&utm_source=googlemerchant&gclid=CPn3wtyi0r0CFZNqfgodAyUAPw

http://www.extremeterrain.com/dana-spicer-driveshaft-tj-yj-8126614s.html?utm_content=XT+Driveline±+Other|Dana+Spicer&utm_campaign=Year+%2F+Gen&utm_source=google-pla&utm_medium=shopping&utm_term=&XTID=J11987&adtype=pla

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i could swear this was about ball joints? haha yes, spicer for u-joints. although I’ve had the same CTM joints for nearly ten years, and never broke one.

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Yes, CTM > Spicer.

As usual, you get what you pay for.

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This was why I no longer use Spicer U-Joints.

The cap broke apart while I was pressing the u-joint into the axle ears after about 3 turns of a hand crank U-joint press. Spicer, in a one and only response to my email requesting a replacement, said the ears on the axle must have been defective causing the cap to fail. Funny how the Moog U-joint slid in like “budda” to such a defective shaft.
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You gotta aim straight for the hole!!

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LMAO! I could take that straight to the gutter, but this is supposed to be somewhat of a family oriented forum! :wink:

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I beat you to the gutter. You just have to see it . . .

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If you are planing on spending 500 plus on a set of ujoint then another 600 on axle shafts why not get rcv axles.

:smiley:

http://www.rcvperformance.com/product-details-axles.aspx?sku=CVJ30-XJ

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Exactly why I got mine

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I wont put anything but Spicer joints in my Jeep unless i trip over a bunch of money then i would buy some CTM for the axle shafts.

And I always go to Crown in Canton, MA, Jeff always takes good care of us