Drive Shaft & U-joint in Granite Falls

Granite Falls's Drivetrain Specialists for Drive Shaft & U-joint

Granite Falls is the doorway to the Mountain Loop Highway, a small town whose roads carry quarry trucks, loggers and a parade of weekend four-wheelers headed into the Cascades. A u-joint is a cross with needle-bearing caps on each end, simple, cheap, and absolutely critical, because when one lets go the driveshaft goes with it. Jamie's Transmission Service has repaired and replaced them for Granite Falls trucks and cars since 1988.

Straight Answers on Drive Shaft & U-joint in Granite Falls

The climb out of town toward the Loop is a genuine grade, and between trailheads, river bars and gravel spurs, Granite Falls vehicles work harder than their odometers suggest. The two classic u-joint symptoms are a vibration at speed and a squeak at low speed. The squeak is the needle bearings inside the caps running dry, and it is the joint telling you it is failing while the fixing is still cheap. Granite Falls drivers who hear it should not wait for symptom number three.

Built to Outlast the Factory Unit in Granite Falls

Lifted 4x4s, side-by-side haulers and older trucks that get used like trucks are Granite Falls staples, and their transfer cases, u-joints and differentials see us as often as their transmissions do. While the shaft is down we inspect both ends: the transmission tailshaft seal and the differential pinion seal. Catching a weeping pinion seal during a u-joint job saves Granite Falls customers the differential job that runs low and howls a year later.