Rag Joint rebuild question

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Originally Posted by dougf

I bought the same thing from autozone and rebuilt my 66 C10 rag joint in about thirty minutes. Worked great.

Thanks!

Originally Posted by franken

There was a post on some forum that said rebuilding rag joints is a bad idea since it torques on the rubber and the bolt will loosen. Might look into an early XJ steering shaft swap to eliminate the rag joint.

That story about a retired GM Engineer saying that? I'm thinking as long as the nuts are Ny-Lock nuts it should be fine, but I'm no engineer either.