Mad Max
Member
- Joined
- Sep 8, 2024
- Messages
- 5
- Reaction score
- 2
- Location
- Pasco, WA
- What engine do you have?
- V6 engine
- What year is your Sport Trac?
- 2008
- What Generation is your Sport Trac?
- 2n Gen Owner
New to this group and I’m sure this has been discussed to death but I’d like to share what I did. My ‘08 ST Limited developed a growling vibration. My transmission guy told me it was the U Joints in the unserviceable drive shaft. I can’t believe they even make those but I found that unacceptable and wasn’t going to replace it with another unserviceable one if I could help it. Did a lot of research on line and blogs like this ( that is how I found this one). Low and behold I found a YouTube video of a 2008 Sport Trac drive shaft. You can search YouTube for it. It is from a company that builds high performance drive shafts for cars and trucks. It is called Tulsa Drive Shafts. They redesigned the shafts with replaceable U joints. Very high quality for about $650ish before tax, free shipping. I called them and talked to the owner and discussed some of my concerns. Super nice guy. I ordered the shaft and it came. The box was torn in two but the shaft un damaged. I have limited mechanical skills but after a few YouTube videos I dove under the truck. I was concerned about a few things that turned out to be not too bad. Most difficult was getting the bolts loosened. All in all it was not that hard and I took my time to not screw up. Had a little difficulty finding the Torque specs for everything but was able to locate with a friends help. Best of all I was able to do it all by myself and saved about $700 I think. I highly recommend Tulsa Drive Shafts. Check them out if you have the same issue. Max
