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Motorcycles are in the van, and the DT100 ready to go on the back. Now I'm packing. It's feeling real.

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If it surges, that's normal, upshift.

Packing begins

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I Love the Smell of Blue Marble in the Morning!!!
Tim Steele in Front Royal, VA
Home of the Phoenix Project
Stay in it when it comes on the pipe, no need to be scared...

Plans to bring three bikes changed. A new addition to the family courtesy of my friend Karl Jones is being delivered to the Gap.

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I Love the Smell of Blue Marble in the Morning!!!
Tim Steele in Front Royal, VA
Home of the Phoenix Project
Stay in it when it comes on the pipe, no need to be scared...

All that's left is packing my clothes and inside the house stuff. Everything in the truck bed is covered with 33 gallon trash bags due to the forecast. So far I like the new trailer. It is low to the ground and they loaded easy.

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I Love the Smell of Blue Marble in the Morning!!!
Tim Steele in Front Royal, VA
Home of the Phoenix Project
Stay in it when it comes on the pipe, no need to be scared...

I heard a clunk when I put the GMC in drive to put it up on the car-lift for the Pre-Gap check. The original 32 year old, 223K miles factory u-joints decided they were done. Unbeknownst to me Original GMC u-joints of that era have no retainer clips. They are held in with some kind of hard plastic that is poured into little holes in the yokes as a liquid and left to harden. I don't have torch enough to melt the plastic out of the yokes so I took the driveshaft to a local shop and they melted it out and changed them. The new ones I got from NAPA have a grease fitting and are held in with internal c-clips. Thank God I put the truck up on the lift to grease the suspension and check the differential. Both u-joints were on the way out. The front one had about 1/16th inch of slop in it and the rear one felt like it was full of gravel.

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I Love the Smell of Blue Marble in the Morning!!!
Tim Steele in Front Royal, VA
Home of the Phoenix Project
Stay in it when it comes on the pipe, no need to be scared...

Yes! I've been through this a few times too. I've made sure any replacements I've gotten have had grease fittings, and I grease them about once a year. About 20 or 25 years ago I took the '73 Dodge van to a transmission shop, and the owner expressed concern about all the grease splattered on the underside of the floor. I told him It's because I grease the U-joints yearly. He didn't seem to fully understand that they'll never fail if you keep them well greased, and will definitely fail in a few years if you don't.

Similarly I added a grease fitting to my H2's head tube around 1980, and the steering bearings are still original and in good shape.

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If it surges, that's normal, upshift.

Have a great time you guys!

Good catch and save!

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This is true. Where I grew up the hills were so steep and long, when your ball rolled down the hill you just said "screw it"...

wow thats a shitty design. sooo glad you caught it. I mean, is a clip that hard to put in?

I guess it was cheaper. It lasted over 220K. A real PITA to get apart. They only charged me $75 to get the old ones out and install the new joints. Yep it would have failed and that would have been very bad.

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I Love the Smell of Blue Marble in the Morning!!!
Tim Steele in Front Royal, VA
Home of the Phoenix Project
Stay in it when it comes on the pipe, no need to be scared...