Almost lost the VX today, bad experience with Indy4x parts

[rowhard]

1st of all let me say that everytime I call Independent4x they are all very nice and offer as much help as they can.

However this time, their parts failed miserably.

Well, first, glad nothing else happened to you and your VX and you were able to get it off the freeway intact. Secondly, lets hope they make it right for you and that the members of Vehicross dot com will be watching what they do for you.

[Scott Harness]

Glad you and the vx are safe

[nfpgasmask]

Yikes, dude, yikes. I hope this is an isolated incident, glad you are OK.

The only mechanical parts I have from Indy4x are the HD Tie Rods on my Trooper...so far so good. Are the U-joint custom made by Indy4x or just one of the parts they found that works? Like my tie rods, they make the HD shaft, but I am pretty sure the heads are just MOOGs.

Bart

[Ascinder]

Post up the offending part number so no one else gets burned. Then just call your bank to mortgage your new place so you can hook in a CTM U-joint.

[tomdietrying]

Ryan,
Sorry to hear about your misfortune, but at least your alright.
Peace.
Tom

[VX crazy]

Wow Ryan, glad your ok and the vx, dang that is a big fear something like that happening, even worse on houston's busy highways! What did indy tell you when you called??

[LittleBeast]

So called Indy and discussed the problem with them. Even if the grease fitting WAS making contact it would have likely just broken off. They said it had to have something to do with the install. So I went back over to the Driveshaft place, they immediately started working trying to find a better different U-joint and they found one for a different vehicle with the exact same specs and installed that one and took off the other Indy 4x U-Joint on the other end that did NOT break and replaced with the stock Isuzu one I had ordered.

I do not think the Indy4x U-joint was faulty, I think they messed up the balancing or install or something. Indy4x said that for a cap to blow up like that something in the cap was wrongly installed.

And since the Drivetrain shop did all this extra work and replaced with a brand new u-joint from their shops inventory in under an hour and repainted the driveshaft I seem to think that Indy4x was right and their part was fine, but something went wrong in the install.

Once I got the driveshaft installed with the new u-jonits my noise from the driveline has gone from a 9.5 (on a 10.0 scale) to a 0.5, it is barely noticeable at all now. You really have to have no radio on and be listening for it now, where before it was louder than my upgraded radio.

Much much better now I am very pleased in the end. And it was good to know that Indy4x's part probably was not the problem after all.