The Plow Truck: 99 454 CCSB

454cid said:

I thought you had been gone too longer than that would be practical/possible to keep MI plates. I don't think that plate design you have is availble anymore. Mine look like a 1964 plate.

Yes, I've heard of some guys using a urethane puck type joint. I think the problem is that they can give out suddenly, as they don't have the reinforcing fiber. If you stated aluminum in the original post, I must have missed it. Aluminum certainly isn't going to break.

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I didn't specify in the original post. The license plate that's on it is from around 2010, it's only there to keep the HOA off my @$s. I had it for 10 years on the 1500 then MI forced me to get a new one. I guess back there they end up in pretty rough shape after so long. I didn't bother with tags until now because it wasn't a driver. I should have tags here soon enough. Being military I got to keep my MI plates as it's my home of record. No front plate or emissions checks FTW. Shaft is back in and steering felt pretty tight sitting there in the driveway. The body lift does put some strain on the steering box now though, I'm sure it didn't do the original rag joint any favors either.

Supercharged111 said:

I didn't specify in the original post. The license plate that's on it is from around 2010, it's only there to keep the HOA off my @$s. I had it for 10 years on the 1500 then MI forced me to get a new one.

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Yes, they started making you get a new one after 10 years, awhile back. I never had a plate deteriorate much, but then I see people running around with them in terrible shape, so I'm not sure what's going on there.

Supercharged111 said:

I guess back there they end up in pretty rough shape after so long. I didn't bother with tags until now because it wasn't a driver. I should have tags here soon enough. Being military I got to keep my MI plates as it's my home of record. No front plate or emissions checks FTW.

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Oh that's awesome. Less hassle getting new plates, and skipping the inspections is a huge plus.

Supercharged111 said:

Shaft is back in and steering felt pretty tight sitting there in the driveway. The body lift does put some strain on the steering box now though, I'm sure it didn't do the original rag joint any favors either.

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My steering is a bit sloppy. I think it's the rebuilt box. Glad you got yours squared away.

454cid said:

Yes, they started making you get a new one after 10 years, awhile back. I never had a plate deteriorate much, but then I see people running around with them in terrible shape, so I'm not sure what's going on there.



Oh that's awesome. Less hassle getting new plates, and skipping the inspections is a huge plus.



My steering is a bit sloppy. I think it's the rebuilt box. Glad you got yours squared away.

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Not entirely squared away. I didn't even make it around the block and I had a lot of bind. I'm gonna swipe the shaft out of my 1500 and put in here, try this one in a truck without a body lift.

So I swiped the shaft out of my 1500 and put it in. Between that and a properly torqued steering shaft extension because body lift the steering is less bad than before. Apparently when I put the box on this thing originally I got the shaft on 90 degrees off. Whoops. Since I had no frame of reference back then as the front end was destroyed I didn't notice. Well the steering wheel is close to straight now. In the midst of all that my upper radiator hose decided to explode.



Since I was standing right there with the hood up when it happened the mess was mitigated. The chafe guard was covering this area so if it had been forming for a while I didn't notice at all. Much better this fails here and now like that than out on the road pulling a trailer in August in eastern CO/western NE, i.e. the capital of BFE.

This thing suddenly began to stink like fuel, raw fuel. Like burn your truck to the ground fuel smell. So I yoinked the plenum and found fuel running down the back of injector #3. I removed and inspected, saw nothing odd. So I swapped the upper o ring out and was very careful about seating the injectors.



Then I kept forgetting crap and had the plenum back off and on way too many times. Got pretty good at it. Gonna go put some gas in it and take it to work tomorrow.

I'm glad you took that aluminum puck off! If you want a solid rag joint, go with a flaming river u-joint. I have them in both my street 400's and love them. Noticable difference but both rags were also pretty shot to begin with.

RichLo said:

I'm glad you took that aluminum puck off! If you want a solid rag joint, go with a flaming river u-joint. I have them in both my street 400's and love them. Noticable difference but both rags were also pretty shot to begin with.

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Being a 99 I can't add a quality joint there. I already have 2 joints upstream of it.

Supercharged111 said:

Being a 99 I can't add a quality joint there. I already have 2 joints upstream of it.

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You cant add a Jeep shaft that has an extra U-joint up by the brake master cylinder but you can take your stock shaft and take the old rag-joint off and slip on a U-joint.

Also... This one has the u-joint to buy in it... “joint 1”DD x 3/4”-30”