where to buy u-joints

[aaklingler]

Has anybody had trouble finding u-joints that fit correctly? I bought 3 for the wheel joint on my 96 dana 60 and all 3 the cross was too wide. What brand do you guys use?
Allen

 

[JLDickmon]

Precision.

NEAPCo works good as well.

 

[mark7.3idi]

Oreillys has the best.

 

[sle2115]

I had very good luck selling Precision. Good fit and seemed to be a very quality product, especially the Brute line, very small holes drilled across, making the wall thickness in the cross about three or four times as thick as the normal ujoints.

 

[Double-S-Diesel]

I usaully get them from napa.
for some reason ever u joint I get from advance doesnt fit right.

 

[aaklingler]

I got 2 Neapco and 1 Precision and all 3 measured too wide across the cross. Has anybody run into that?

 

[Double-S-Diesel]

dana 60's have been the same for years.

 

[aaklingler]

Thats what I came up with, I think they all take the same u-joint, I have also picked up a spicer u-joint and all 4 range from .025-.070" bigger then the yoke. Nobody else has seen this?

 

[sle2115]

I know axle shaft upgrades on the D60's to a 37 spline (IIRC) are commong, maybe someone has upgraded the unit. I think the originals (mine has them, I counted them, but it's been two years ago) are 30 or 32 spline. If you have a good parts store around, they should be able to measure your old one and get you the right parts.

 

[Double-S-Diesel]

are ya shure the ears on the shaft are not bent in.
may be worth a trip to a drive line shop and have them put in the axle for ya.
all my PIA ones I take to a local shop

 

[aaklingler]

Both sides of the yoke at the farthest end of the yoke and and the inner end mearsure 3" and I guy on SDD gave me a link to neapco's website and there measurement is 3". I don't know how many splines it has, I have the side back together I had apart, I put the neapco in that measured 3.025". Both sides had spicers in that looked about 13yo. It was a PITA to get the spindle off.