The International Cessna 170 Association

I think the reason for the grease it to keep rust at bay and the sleeve both keeps the grease in place but also keeps the pins in place and maybe stops a total failure? I'm going to call MacFarlane and see what they say.

I ended up ordering my U-Joints from Yingling aviation. They stated they get theirs from the Cessna warehouse, there were 18 of them in stock. Mine came with a manufacture date of 2015 on them. I had to order the bolts and nuts separately as they did not come in a kit. He looked up the bolts and th...

Got the kit in today and the sleeve is in the kit. Also the bolts both fit easily in the U joint. One is just longer than the other. I still wonder about the clamping force and also about whether the shaft holes are elongated, we'll see tomorrow when I install it.

Hope you don't mind bringing this back up. I ordered the UJC-KT-2 kit from Spruce. MacFarlane says all the U joint kits have the sleeve. The Spruce description online said it didn't have the sleeve. So I called Spruce and the woman said she looked at the kit and it has the sleeve. The Spruce kit tha...