Pretty nice work but in all fairness, you made a mistake when you overdrove one of the caps and you stopped the timer while you corrected that. You should have shown everyone how long it really took you to do the job.
I have always found the Universal Joint a interesting simple machine. Capable of making the tube spin and angle at the same time. Its amazing the forces that exrert on this peice without breaking! Like the coupler of a locomotive pulling tons of weight. Very strong!
Easily a 5-minute assembler. If he wasn't narrating while working, and had a perfect run with no tool drops or hang-ups it would have been a 5 minute job. Still blindingly fast though. I'll venture to bet 70% of the automotive community couldn't do in 10 minutes. I wonder how many thousand U-joints he's done.
A pity that in the rush for completion, you forgot to mention why you ended up hammering all 4 sides. It is to position the cups firmly against the circlips and ease up the tension on the seals. That's why it moves so freely in the end. By the way: I once managed without a pressuring device, just a hammer, screw driver and spanners on a summer holiday in a French garage lent to me for the occasion. Of course it took me much longer (1 hr approx.).
3:47 So, that didn't take us but ... too long. :^)
I'm happy if I get a U-joint done in less than an hour.
o2bgpn 1 year ago
Pretty nice work but in all fairness, you made a mistake when you overdrove one of the caps and you stopped the timer while you corrected that. You should have shown everyone how long it really took you to do the job.
pheloniousmunk 1 year ago
John this is your shop manager. We just got in a big order. You have 1 hr to do 12 U Joints.
x11115 1 year ago
Thank you John! I just did my first u-joints took me a little longer than 5 minutes but because of this video everything went perfectly!
penmawr 1 year ago
You could have easily done it in 5 minutes if you weren't explaining it at the same time.
LadyTiadalma 1 year ago
thank you for all your video's you help us in so many ways keeping our MG on the road
pinkwontons 2 years ago
I have always found the Universal Joint a interesting simple machine. Capable of making the tube spin and angle at the same time. Its amazing the forces that exrert on this peice without breaking! Like the coupler of a locomotive pulling tons of weight. Very strong!
Bassotronics 2 years ago
haha i wish u joint cups fell out like that for me, my swinging press is much bigger than yours and ive never pounded cups out that easy
c3h9e4v7y 2 years ago
Easily a 5-minute assembler. If he wasn't narrating while working, and had a perfect run with no tool drops or hang-ups it would have been a 5 minute job. Still blindingly fast though. I'll venture to bet 70% of the automotive community couldn't do in 10 minutes. I wonder how many thousand U-joints he's done.
Bliggida 2 years ago
A pity that in the rush for completion, you forgot to mention why you ended up hammering all 4 sides. It is to position the cups firmly against the circlips and ease up the tension on the seals. That's why it moves so freely in the end. By the way: I once managed without a pressuring device, just a hammer, screw driver and spanners on a summer holiday in a French garage lent to me for the occasion. Of course it took me much longer (1 hr approx.).
donthuis 3 years ago