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Posted by ni[X]it on May 18, 2011 at 5:58 PM
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In Reply To Any other options besides OEM for steering ujoint (knuckle)? posted by my91z on May 18, 2011 at 05:20 PM
     
Message Story time,
as a highly decorated aerospace engineer with years of experience developing THE missle defense system, I can tell you that skimping on your u-joint knuckle is paramount to not properly inspecting the primary o-ring on the main solid rocket booster before flight. (I designed the third stage of that system back in my NASA days... I saw that accident coming a mile away, but I was too busy working on the X86 processor architecture (using marshmallows and sphegetti of all things! LOL)).
Anyway, as I engineered the structural components that steered the shuttle I leveraged my incredibly vast knowledge in stresses and strains of plastics and woods (in a vastly humid and salt spray condition) that I can reassure you that I know that a improperly specified u-joint would be highly disadvantageous. Thats why I designed my own out of a meterial that I also designed myself. I can't talk about it.
On a funny side note, after my third semester in kindergarden I determined that I could take a sugary fruit mass and roll it out into a sweet treat. I engineered the mechanics that created the first fruit roll up and designed how I wanted people to eat it. It's true.

Q: Who am I?


Anyway, I found some generics you should be able to use. But you could also try the salvage yards online, like autogator. Z1 might be a choice too.

Not sure I trust this, but might...
[ http://www.speedwaymotors.com/Sweet-Mfg-Universal-Steering-U-Joints,2031.html ]
[ www.woodwardsteering.com ]
break out your engineering degree and go through this site.
[ http://www.borgeson.com/xcart/catalog/Universal_Joints-orderby_0-p-1-c-2.html ]
Or, Like Draker done did, try classifieds. I'm sure Bernie smokes his good weed through a fat Double Helix Rocking and Damping Universal Joint.


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