My little bit of advice to anyone renewing the centre bearing mount on a BA falcon is to avoid using cheap universal joints, mine had only managed to reduce the vibration to a loud hum and two cheap universal joints later I was advised to use a quality spicer uni joint and the hum and vibration were cured.  So stay away from cheap uni joints the job is too big to waste time with cheap parts.

Cheers, hmmf aka John

10 hours ago, hmmf said:

My little bit of advice to anyone renewing parts on a car is to avoid using cheap

All fixed. 

 

In all serious though, thanks for the tip. Is nice when people have advice based on real experience.

Edited May 19, 20179 yr by El Andrew
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I swapped mine out recently and didn't even consider the cheap option.

The hardy spicer unit is only 50 or 60 bucks anyway and is solid compared to the hollow cheapies that cost 30 bucks.

 

It's been said before, if you buy cheap you buy twice or in some cases 3 times.

Having worked at a major auto parts store it's amazing what classifies as oem equivalent. Lol

Relevant to the thread but I mentioned it elsewhere; the oem uni joint was $50 to $60 from Hardy Spicer while repco wanted over $100 and a Ford dealer told me I was getting the same price as repco but only cos they were giving me a discount. 

Lol wow what a joke. Yeah knowing markup now kills me anytime I have to get price on anything for my car. Especially ridiculous things like Kia Rio spark plugs at $50ea rrp iridiums....'pass me those Bosch double platinums over there please on staff'... haha also currently running the same Bosch platinum plugs in my xr right now. Couldn't say no for the price.

Yep.

 

Insert rant here. 

The Repco packaged unijoint for the falcon is actually supplied by Hardy spicer for them at the moment.

Next month or year it may be procured from elswhere.

When I called them they had the cheap one as a first option and offered the hardy spicer as a hd variant. 

 

This was roughly 2 months ago. 

I replaced mine on my bs xr6t with a cheap ebay center bearing and a toyo uni joint

 

there is shudder at 110kph though.....

 

is toyo uni joints a good brand?

 

thinking I should change center bearing again though....can cheap ones cause a shudder?