How to remove the u-joint, help !

[Bone]

Have done this a dozen times but today is another day. Trying to service the final drive and thought I would pull the u-joint to check it out. I can't get it out of the swing arm. I've raised and lowered the arm, can spin the joint with a wire but it refuses to move down the tube. I can remove it from the output shaft but that's as far as it goes.

I'm tempted to grease the spline and put it back together but now WHY won't it come out has me curious.

Any ideas ?

[John Schmidt]

Remember....the driveshaft has to be removed first before you can remove the u-joint without pulling the swingarm. Here's a link to Chet's original post on how to do it.

http://www.rattlebars.com/mtz/ujoint.html

[Bone]

Thanks John the u-joint is out.

Didn't remember pulling them out of the boot area but it was so easy

[old2soon]

Thanks John the u-joint is out.

Didn't remember pulling them out of the boot area but it was so easy

Iffin it wuz me I'd be puttin in a NEW boot!  John gonna recommend rubbin alky.  RIDE SAFE.

[John Schmidt]

When you go to reinstall that boot, the swingarm has to be about as high as you can get it. The space above it is so limited you can't get the boot on with it hanging down.

[Jess from VA]

Putting the boot back on is no harder than putting on a condom in a 10K foot free fall. 

[John Schmidt]

Jess, I wouldn't know....I've never been in a 10,000ft. free fall. 

[The emperor has no clothes]

Putting the boot back on is no harder than putting on a condom in a 10K foot free fall. 

Well now, that's quite the image