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Originally Posted by special-K
Believe it or not,this was probably caused by bad spindle bearings.Those tiny little needle bearings in the inner end of your spindle.They are what carries the whole outer end of your inner shaft and inner end of your outer shaft.If they`re worn,your yokes will contact the ball-joint cap and KABLOOWEE!!!Good bye u-joint and hopefully not a yoke or two.I replace them every time I`m in there,they are prolly the cheapest part in the whole assembly and they do so much to save the costly stuff.
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I agree with this since I just pulled apart one of my spare 44's to harvest parts this weekend. I noticed that one the lockout and hub were removed the axle had a lot of "slop" inside the spindle. The needle bearings had worn out and scared the axle itself. I'm hoping to use the axle since it wasn't to bad...