Special tool to remove u-joint?

[71chmark]

advice on how to remove clips on u-joint to get it off the driveshaft?

[GoodysGotaCuda]

You can usually use a screwdrive on each end of the open part of the clip and push it off. Then you'll need to hammer the caps out, kind of a trick to doing it if you've never done it. Just whatever you do, dont smack the welds, the tube, or vice the tube, drop it, or anything...you'll create a vibration.

Easy on installing the new ones, those needle bearings can get away from ya.

[74 340 4speed]

Take the clips out with a flat screwdriver, and find a socket that will go into the holes that hold the u-joint in the drive shaft.  Put it in a vise, with the socket against the u-joint cap and you should be able to compress it enough on both sides remove it.  I have seen some that use a plastic to retain the caps in the driveshaft.  You have to heat these up enough to melt the plastic and break the seal.  The caps fly off, so you have to be EXTREMELY careful when doing this.

[Scatterbrain]

I had to do this on my 71 corvette's half shafts.  Pretty easy with the right tools.  I found a u-joint remover online for about 30 bucks.  Mine were pretty rusted up and my vise couldn't move them.  The u-joint remover looks like a big beefy c-clamp with an open end for the caps to fall through.  It took about 2 minutes to pop off the old u-joints and another minute to put the new ones on.

[71chmark]

What do you do? Take off the clips, push it through on one side and take a cap off and pull it back through?

[Scatterbrain]

What do you do? Take off the clips, push it through on one side and take a cap off and pull it back through?

Thats exactly what I did.  Though one was pretty stubborn and I ended up cutting it out with a cutting wheel.