Spring clips making u-joints too tight?
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2014 3:45 am
I'm putting together the U-joints on the cheapskates, and the round u-Joints move freely on the metal rod, but when I put the plastic retaining clips on, it pushes in on the joints too hard and creates a lot of friction on the motion. The joints are very stiff now and I can't imagine it would be good to have the joints that stiff. Is this as designed? How freely should they rotate? I imagine as freely as possible as long as there is no slop?
-David
-David