lucas159•3d agoProlific Poster

Used to grease u-joints every 3 months, now I just replace the whole driveshaft

Back when I worked at a shop in Phoenix, I'd hit every u-joint with a grease gun during oil changes. Now with these sealed joints on newer trucks, you can't even get a fitting on em. Had a 2022 F-250 come in last month with a bad joint, Ford wanted $900 for a whole new driveshaft instead of a $40 u-joint. Anyone else just stocking spare shafts now?

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sullivan.john3d ago

$900 for a whole new driveshaft" - I had to read that twice cause I thought I was seeing things. That's insane. For a part that used to cost forty bucks and ten minutes of your time. I get that engineers want to make things simpler for the assembly line, but they don't think about the poor guy who has to fix it later. My 2019 Chevy has those sealed joints too, and I'm honestly dreading the day one goes out. It's like they're designing stuff to be thrown away instead of fixed.

christophermurray3d ago

Same engineers designing the battery packs that need a $3000 service to swap a $50 cell.