In need of some serious deep penetrating lubricant
Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2013 9:22 pm
I bet that caught your attention!
Serious though, the u-joints on my steering shaft look like this:
And they are starting to bind up when turning, I already mistakenly replaced the power steering pump trying to solve my issue. Oddly enough, it helped for about a week then things were right back to what felt like lack of power steering.
I soaked both u-joints (there's one at the top and another at the bottom of the shaft) in wd40, then applied about a can of liquid wrench and things went completely back to normal... for a while.
Seems like the liquid wrench wears out pretty quick now that it's getting colder, requiring me to re-apply every other time I drive it (which isn't often). Does anyone have a better recommendation? I want to try and avoid replacing the shaft until it warms up again, truck wont fit in my garage and I'm choosing to be a baby about the cold now.
Serious though, the u-joints on my steering shaft look like this:
And they are starting to bind up when turning, I already mistakenly replaced the power steering pump trying to solve my issue. Oddly enough, it helped for about a week then things were right back to what felt like lack of power steering.
I soaked both u-joints (there's one at the top and another at the bottom of the shaft) in wd40, then applied about a can of liquid wrench and things went completely back to normal... for a while.
Seems like the liquid wrench wears out pretty quick now that it's getting colder, requiring me to re-apply every other time I drive it (which isn't often). Does anyone have a better recommendation? I want to try and avoid replacing the shaft until it warms up again, truck wont fit in my garage and I'm choosing to be a baby about the cold now.
