I'm well and truly in the front drive shaft club as well. I had some vibration developing in the car and reading up on some forums had a look at the front drive shaft and it had chipped some bits off.. at that point the car had done 115,000k's so, pulled it out and shopped around for a replacement. Genuine replacement was way out of my budget at the time so I went with a "highly recommended" britparts shaft which had all the greasing points etc and was meant to be way better than OEM on it for about $500ish I think it was. 10,000's later and I've got vibration again at about 115 - 120k's and chirping when I'm reversing.
Jump under the truck tonight to grease it all up, haven't done any real offroad work, some fast dirt roads, maybe 200k's all up, and did the DC and shaft, but then when I went to do the front joint the grease point was finger tight... Probably should have checked it when I put it in, but you know... you'd think that should be done right out of the box. Couldn't get my grease gun onto the grease point, so I figured it had to come out and get done right.
Once it was out, I found the squeak (like a kids swing going back and forth) was coming from the centre ball - dry as. The front single UJ was also dry as and really lumpy...
Going to be going back to the shop I got it from in Adelaide and seeing what they suggest - having only done 10,000 of pretty soft driving I'm not overly impressed, especially since I'm heading up to the Flinders next week for some camping.
Will get some pics up and let you know how I go tomorrow with their answers.
If they aren't any good in helping me get this fixed - I'm thinking Tom Woods.
2002 update V8, no lift... yet.
