The Stovebolt Site Forums The Parking Lot Big Bolts What is this part (collectively) called?

It's a part of the drive shaft, and it's definitely looking like it's a part off of a 57 (cracking, degrading, and etc).. I'd like to maybe clean it up a bit, and replace what I can and what the budget allows?

Mystery Part

Also, would it be safe to take a pressure washer to these joints? (including U-joint)

U-joint

It's called a centre hanger bearing.

Yours looks like it needs replacing - a job I have to tackle myself but haven't got that far yet! :P

As for the u-joints - I blasted all the crap off of mine with a pressure washer, but not purposely hitting the grease nipple. After I was done, I put the grease gun on it to push out any water that may of got in.

Thank you so much for the help bigtonka... this stuff has been keeping me up at night

is this centre hanger bearing something that carquest or NAPA would supply? or do I need to do some junk yard diving to find the healthiest replacement?

I've never used a grease gun before, but I'm assuming you just pump the nipple full of grease till it excretes somewhere? I noticed the one on the MC and wasn't sure how much grease to pump in there.

Actually - it might be called a center carrier bearing. I know I can buy mine at various vendors - I'm sure one of the big bolt guys will chime in about yours.


As for the grease gun - usually the grease pushes its way out of the four bearing caps (when greasing a u-joint)

Depending on what your putting the grease to, you have to be careful - some of the newer rubber boots that have grease nipples could rupture - so you go slow and watch for the "excrement"

Sweet!!! I can now inject grease into nipples with confidence!!

just to get our terminology right they are
called zerks not nipples

center bearings are what i know em as

MC- - - - -master cylinder? NO-NO-NO-NO-NO! That's not a grease fitting, it's a bleeder screw! Never, ever get oil or grease around any brake part. It deteriorates the rubber items and contaminates the brake fluid. I got a car in once for repair that the owner's boyfriend (a confirmed drunk) had added automatic transmission fluid to the master cylinder. When I gave her the estimate to replace all the wheel cylinders, the master cylinder and the rubber flex lines, and flush the steel lines with alcohol, she junked the car.
Jerry

the TF series MC has a grease zerk on the pedal arm pivot, don't think there's a bleeder on them

Bill

Yup yup, that's the one I was talkin about! ;-P had no clue the name of it!

OK, I just got a really bad visual about that one! Back when a lot of GM cars had a fuel injection pressure test port with a 1/4" flare fitting with a Schrader valve in it, I saw a couple of Freon recycling machines ruined by somebody connecting one of the lines to the fuel system. Gasoline and refrigerant gas equipment don't gee-haw too well!

I also saw a guy use the exhaust sample tube on a 4-gas exhaust analyzer to try to check for hydrocarbons in a cooling system (checking for a leaky head gasket) and he got the probe into the coolant. Antifreeze in a 4-gas is another no-no!
Jerry

Hahahaha! yeaaahhhh... I felt it in your words ;-P My next topic could've been "I accidently filled my brake lines with grease! helpppp!" *yikes*

Streamylc,

If you are still looking for a source of a carrier bearing, 55-72 carrier bearing for 1/2 ton and 3/4 ton. JC also sells carrier bearings for other years and sizes.

Note the years and the sizes it fits.

NICE!!! thank you Tim!! (and I could have sworn I looked up and down through J.C.!!) the highest these go is to 3/4ton, but I would imagine that it'd fit the 2's just fine?