I feel this should be obvious but I can't find the info anywhere, and my normal means of looking things up has failed me.

Had a 1992 (build date 91) Sterling 10.25 in my truck, long story short it went FUBAR and needed to be replaced. Stumbled upon one out of a 94 F-350, did the swap. Everything seemed to have gone gravy, was doing wheel bearings the other day (No info on axle history, just going through it), and when adjusting the drums I heard and awful clunk.

Trace it down to the drive shaft u-joint that connects to the yoke, well boneheaded me didn't notice the difference when I was swapping it and connecting the drive shaft. I'm pretty sure I put the old style strap that bolt around the u-joint on the new axle.

There is a decent amount of play, both side to side, and front and back. I was in a rush so I used a hammer to form some grade 5 washers that I had lying around to wrap around the u-joint cap and then did the strap up over that, got it nice and even, and tightened it down. Very much a temp solution.



I had an old style yoke laying around, no way to make that work without more fab work than I have ability.

So the question is, do they take different universal joints? I've tried looking them up places like rockauto, etc and get the same part numbers across the pinion swap.

Do I need to track down the newer u-joint straps? Am I looking at getting the driveshaft modified to take a bigger joint? Or should I just try and source a Ext-cab/long box F-350 drive shaft?

Didn't want to reply to an old thread, but this has the most info I've found so far.
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/1...l#post14696715

 

i swapped in the pre '93 sterling in my truck (which is the short yoke) and i had to use conversion u-joints and the older style straps.
i took the parts in to car-quest and they measured up and got me what i needed to make it correct.
Carquest Part #2-3050

 

That is exactly what I need, thank you!
Read several swap threads nobody mentioned needing one of these....