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Originally Posted by russianwol
Hi, I'm replacing my drive shaft support bearing and support bracket as part of other work I'm doing on my W123. I noticed that the driveshaft U-joint is sticky what seems to be in the perfect center of the joints.
And by sticky I mean if I move the parts around - they are smooth until it centers, then it feels like the joint is falling into a groove of some sort. This is the same for all 4 directions of movement.
Does anyone know if this is the special design of the U-joint or a really bad wear? The old bearing was pretty lose and noisy - could have been original from 1982. The support bracket rubber was completely torn up.
Thanks.
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Mine was the same way. I replaced the support/bearing/boot/flex discs, and put it back in. No issues so far (almost 3,000 miles since then).
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