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Old 11-26-2002, 11:34 AM
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Driving on bad U-Joints.

Hey.. semi-emergency. I'm buying this junker car for $300, but I just found out that it's located in Andover Maine. I have a friend who might be able to get a trailer and drive up with me, but Andover is 5 hours from me, and that's asking a lot of him. So it looks like I might be driving it back down. I know for a fact that the car has a couple of bad u-joints. The car binds around tight corners. How risky is it to drive such a long distance on bad joints?

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Old 11-26-2002, 12:56 PM
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U-joints

Snap goes the driveshaft . Guessing this is the RX huh. If there's not a whole lot of play you should be fine. If there's a lot figure out how to put it in fwd. Not sure how ya do that on the RX full time system. Other than that you could remove the driveshaft all together before driving it. They do that with Landrovers to tow 'em. Really so long as you don't take the twisties too bad or stomp on the gas you should make it fine.
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Old 11-26-2002, 02:57 PM
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Re: U-joints

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Other than that you could remove the driveshaft all together before driving it.
I would also suggest this,but there might be a problem keeping the gear oil in the tranny. I am not familiar with the driveshaft configuration on the RX but that is something to be concerned about also.
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Old 11-26-2002, 03:49 PM
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I'm still trying to figure out what u-joints have to do with tight turns...
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Old 11-26-2002, 05:30 PM
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...maybe nothing. Someone suggested it and it sounded good. To me, binding on tight turns sounds more like a front diff. Or possibly CV joints.

any ideas?

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Old 11-26-2002, 08:08 PM
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It depends on what the binding feels like. Hard to tell from this distance but other items that could produce an effect that could be termed 'binding' could be tie rod ends, ball joints or bearing plates.
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