Hey all, just wondering if anyone else has seen a bent yoke or seen the holes out of round??...... (the small part of the drive shaft where the u-joint is attached and then bolts to the rear end) also called a saddle. I have a wicked vibration, the u-joint is loose enough to spin the caps by hand! I pulled it all apart and replace the u-joint to find that the u-joint could be put together by just pushing it in by hand....when doing this I found that the yoke was also bent; when one side of the u-joint was installed the end without a cap almost touched the inside edge of the other side....what I mean is that the holes were not squared to each other like they should be, and what is kinda wierd is the yoke is bent apart,
Like this \_/ when it should be like this |_| , and when I think about it, I would expect it to be bent in like this /_\ from hitting the frame.
Do you guys think it could be from the downward pinion angle pulling it out like that? Is this normal?