Thread: What a two steps forward one step back day

then slide the yoke and shaft out of the splines in the shaft

Just a caveat that you have to be very careful to mark the yoke and shaft or you will get it out of sync. Hmm I wonder if that applies to shafts with a rubber coupling ,but I think so.
I try to never disturb the position of the splines even when I put in new Ujs as it is easy to rub off marks and then be puzzling for hours over "is this the correct way?"

Regards Philip A

Hi Phillipa
I read this post last Friday and was having the same noise, drives ya crazy!!

Anyway, pulled it apart Sunday morning to find the brake shoes had worn a nice groove in each of the six contact points on the backing plate. So, disassembled the lot, put the backing plate in the vice and proceeded to run a line of small electrode weld along the grooves. Ground down and finished with an air grinder back to flat. Black paint to look pretty and put back together. I have the original black springs and they are pretty weak so will need to replace with the red sooner or later, but the weld lines fixed the rattle vibration. It took 300,00k's to get to this point so may not bother with the red springs.
The "Sounds of Silence" are very nice. Just thought I would let you know about my fix that seems to have worked.
Cheers
Jack.