so is rockford the only U-joints we can get for the 1st gen.

Has anyone done them and if so how well do they hold up?

 

I've done a few of them...they don't hold up very well to be honest. I've had to do them on my V 2x and my buddy's the same. His rear U Joint broke on a launch lol. He's basically stock with just an intake and no muffler(it rusted off during the winter). Mine seized up during the winter and started shaking the car again so I had to redo them. I haven't really even tried to launch my V from a dead stop after seeing how my buddy broke his launching his stock V, and mine is a B20V with a few mods.

 

I remember I had a post up about this and someone had actually suggested getting some larger u-joints and grinding the inner diameter to fit the larger-beefier u-joints. this might be something I'm going to try later down the road if I decide to finally boost my V

 

where are you located?

 

in MN...kinda far from ya. I have all the tools to do it and it only takes about 30 mins + 20 mins to take off and reinstall the drive shaft

 

If you are stock, just get OEM replacements, or evne go to napa and get some. I have put the first line napa u-joints in cars making a lot more HP then a CRV and they have held up pretty good on them.

 

That's not really an option, Honda only sells the complete driveshaft and other than Rockford no one seems to make U-joints for these things.

 

I can get u joints from napa or even parts source all day long here for CRV's.

 

If you can that's a fairly recent development. When I worked for Honda we used to send the driveshafts to a driveshaft shop about an hour away from us to have the holes reamed out a bit so off the shelf aftermarket U-joints could be installed as there was nothing available at that time.

 

That sucks for you then, because I've installed them before on them, and that was years ago.

 

I ordered the rockford u-joints for my daughter's 1999 CRV. I ordered them on-line. Rockland was the orignal provider of u-joints to honda.

I had a machine shop press the old ones out and press the new ones in. Since they are staked in at the factory, they can be very difficult to get out. Honda never intended for the u-joints to be replaced separately. The repair manual states that if there is an excessive amount of run-out, replace the entire drive shaft.

I did this at mileage 212,000. The car now has 230,000. So they seem to hold up. The installation and removal of the drive shaft itself took 15 minutes total. We have towed our boat with it, including pulling the boat up steep boat launch ramps.

Keep in mind that replacing u-joints can alter the balance the drive shaft. A machine shop can re-balance it if that is the case. You can also use the stick on tire balance weights and experiment around to smooth out any vibrations.

The balance on my daughter's car is off slightly so at certain speeds there is a very mild vibration. Because of the age of the car and smallness of the vibration she chose to live with it.

Hope this helps