71-76 RWD Cadillac Deville - Double Cardan Driveshaft Rebuild
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2024
- / @impalamansgarage
In this video we rebuild a Cadillac Deville double cardan driveshaft. This concepts here should be applicable to most 60s and 70s GM vehicles utilizing double cardan driveshafts.
Parts:
Spicer U-Joint - 5-3147X - Universal Joint
GMB 2601100 - Ball seat kit
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That's a Double, Double Cardan shaft. Glad mine has only one! Thank you for the video, this will save me a lot of time. I did one years ago, but forgotten which order to rebuild.
Thanks for the series of Cadillac videos. They have helped me work on my 68 Deville.
Thank you sir for watching.
Damn, i'm glad I watched this! I was just about the tackle the u joints on my 75 CDV, and didnt even have a clue about that center ball joint. Gonna be ordering parts for that now too!
Thanks for watching and good luck on your project!
Big tnx for the video. I am just going to do the same job on my Buick Special -62. Greetings from Finland.
Thank you! Glad you found it useful. 😁
Interestingly I'm doing u joints on my 1972 caprice and it has just 1 double Cardone at the rear diff your video saved my ass because all the other kids with double Cardone had a removable ball that goes in the socket first I thought my ball might be stuck on the drives haft apparently it does stay on the shaft during install ill try it tommrow I bought entire new assembled Cardone assembly with 1 joint already installed came with 2nd one the spicer sealed type you were talking about being rusty mine are great. Anyway I do know from past use of those greasables that they snap easier with torque and traction and they need to be greased every several thousand miles.
Thanks for posting. I'm checking out my drive train as I was starting to feel a slight wobble and have the double cardan on my gmc sonoma. Unfortunately everything popped out of the ball seat on disassembly and I wasn't quite sure of the order of reassembly. Thanks for showing the reassembly. I have done the job once before however I didn't make notes and the instruction sheet has no diagrams. Good news is I don't need to take the ball off as it is still in round. The first time I did this the ball was pear shaped and was difficult to remove without the proper tools. I'm hoping the other cardan at the differential will be in just as good of shape. I think the wobble is coming from a defective carrier bearing.
Good luck. Finding vibrations in the drivetrain can be a challenge.
@ImpalamansGarage Thanks again for the video I got my 72 Caprice driveline together today and installed. Have not drove it yet . well see how it goes, as bad as all 3 ujoints were I am shocked it was so smooth before i took it out to work on it. I started to get the single gentle clunk when put in and out of gear those joints were the original from 72 still had the injected plastic internal rings. Its my first car not sure if ya had time to view my channel I have 2 vids 1 is a short start up and idle other video begins with a burnout i did 25 years ago when then it leads to a photo montage of car as it sits recently. I have owned it for 28 years now it was my first car at 15 Y.O. did everything myself paint and motor as well still looks decent considering how old the paint job is Its not a show car anyway its meant to be a drivers car from new and that is still what i do with her. Its a 400 SB , comp cam 268E with home ported polished stock iron heads some old school internals my dad always ran. TH350 with a shift kit that was done in 1975 LOL with a 3500RPM stall coupled to 308 rear makes it a very well rounded street highway cruiser the 400 has the gusto down low and decent top tend performance typical Edelbrock dual plan with 650 ABS 2 carb perfect size for Cam and intake profile. I have being going back through it lately - refreshing entire drive train- suspension stuff brakes etc. I am now mocking up a new dual 2.5 ' header back exhaust the old setup finally began to show its age and rusted through I am doing a in front of rear wheel under back door side dump. its a 4 door hardtop car. I love the look. people thought I was crazy for fixing up a 4 door in the mid 90s now its a rare gem even more so now because most of the full size B body cars are turned into donks., what a shame. What was your Impala? Your channel name refers to one I did not get deep enough in your vids to see one.
66 4-door hardtop 327 car. It was a junker I worked on before youtube existed LOL
If you pause at 19:41 you can see the corrosion on the bearing wear surface of the non-greasable U-Joints I had been planning on using.
The 77-79, maybe up to 81 models have the same style driveshaft
I appreciate the video, Would have been nice to see you remove and replace the ball itself. I got a 68 electra and the ball is trashed. The kits are not availlable, but I can machine a new ball; just can't figure out how to remove the old one without destroying the assembly. Any ideas?
I will be honest with you. I did not spend any time pondering on that because this one was in good condition. I had it in my mind that the ball and U-joint housing part was cast together and then all that was welded to the main part of the drive shaft. I could be wrong. I'd recommend looking for a salvage driveshaft.
Naw man, i just destroyed my double Cardan H Yoke, sad days for me, just one quick tip guys, be sure 100% sure that u were able to remove all the plastic thing that was used as glue for the universal joint. broke mine .
Ive got a question about centering ball. There are 2 springs. You've installed one but whats about the second one?
The kit came with two. I assume that is to accommodate different makes and models. I picked the spring that matched the one that was already on the car.
do this ball seat kit fit my -66 cadillac deville? i also have the double cardan setup and some owner before me installed u-joints it looks like, but i have play in the center ball area it looks like and vibrations + sound. i suppose it can give me this problem if its worn?
According to rockauto.com the ball seat kit that I bought does not fit a 66. Now their database could be wrong. Honestly I'm not sure what your setup is like on that 66. The kit is only $14 bucks so might be worth a risk to buy one and see if it matches. (part is GMB 2601100) Also I would try the Cadillac forums at forums.cadillaclasalleclub.org/. There is a wealth of knowledge there.
Man that u join rebuild turned into a bear. The HD u joints are non greessable because the cross drilling weakens them. I doubt this will be an issue for you. Your neither rock crawling or drag racing in that classy caddy.
I had 2 drivetrain shops in Vegas tell me my U joints were fine. That was until I put the Caddy on my own lift and showed them the play in one set of them. It was clicking for years. I posted a video about that. Wasn't much play but enough to cause the noise. When I showed one shop that, they said " that's not right ". They installed new u joints and now the car shakes at 70 mph. Said they balanced it too. We only have " top notch" mechanics here in Vegas, lol! Don't believe what you see about them all being a genius on those reality shows