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drive shaft repair

Do you have a vibration when your driving down the expressway? When was the last time you checked your u-joints and drive shafts? Drive shafts and u-Joints should be checked monthly when greasing truck to ensure safety on the road. The sooner the better. The longer a defective or worn down drive shaft, the more damage it will make. A defective u-joint or drive shaft can cause you to break down on the side of the road and cost you 1000's of dollars. When a drive shaft falls out on the road at 75 mph, it causes a lot of damage to electrical, air hoses, yokes, air bags, tires, and much more. A wrecker is extremely expensive if your loaded and broken down in the middle of no where. An quick inspections of u-joints, yokes, and drive shafts can save you from a very costly repair. We make custom drive shaft to any specification of any truck, whether its Volvo, Mack, Kenworth, Peterbilt, Sterling, and more. Our diesel mechanic can check your drive shaft and u-joints in a matter of minutes. If u-joints have a play they need to be replaced. We will start checking from transmission u joints, yokes, all drive shafts, carrier bearing, and check all the way back to drive shafts in between differentials. During this inspection we can also make sure no oil leaks from transmission and differentials. We also make custom drive lines for pto system for all hydraulic systems. Drive shaft allow the truck to shift from parked to drive. Our road service tech has gotten tons of work from defective drive shafts, broken yokes, and broken u-joints. Just yesterday, Mario, our lead road service diesel mechanic, had a road service after Falfurrias, about 70 miles not of our shop. Driver said he was going 75mph, he heard a boom, truck shaking, looks at mirrors, sees parts falling out and fireworks under truck. Truck had to be towed into our shop. Truck had a bad broken hanger, 2 blown airbags on front rear axle, had to open front differential to find a broken tooth on rear end crown. Customer repair was over $5,000. Customer told me he had been driving for 5 years and did not know u-joints had to be greased regularly. We also have several used drive shafts for sale. If we don't have the one you need, we can make it usually with in a few hours if we have the correct material. If parts need to be order, we can get it overnight on most occasion. Swing by our shop and get a free inspection of drive shafts, u-joints, yokes, and much more.

Common bad drive shaft signs

1. Vibrations, usually gets worse and truck goes at faster speed.
2. Turning Problems, lack of steering
3. Squeaking noise, mostly when slowing down
4. Clunking Noise
5. Play in u-joints
6. Truck wants to turn off during accelerations