I was under that impression as well, just double checking.

 

I run 15w40 Diesel oil as well. Except I run 15w40 year around. It never gets cold enough here to worry about it in the winter. If I got free oil from some place I'd run 10w30 diesel oil in the winter and 15w40 in the spring/summer for max fuel economy. But, I don't.

 

Today I finished what I started yesterday, replacing the rear U-joint. For some reason one of the caps on the pinion flange had not a single needle left in it, plenty of grease, no needles. Got one from AutoZone, installed the smaller caps in the drive shaft, went back under to push the two pieces together and when I pulled it back to mate with the flange I found the new joint was about 1/8" too short across the caps. Back 15 miles to AZ, couldn't find one that fit. Went about 1/2 mile to NAPA, they matched it right up, their number 434. Went ahead and got a center one while I had the rear shaft out.

Today, one from NAPA fit perfectly, then I replaced the leaking left side exhaust manifold gasket, more fun, despite anti-seize the nuts holding things like the coil bracket, heat shield and dipstick tube wanted to take the bolts out with them.

 

Interesting that NAPA could do it when AZ couldn't. Both using the computer or did NAPA have someone old - like us?

 

Well I know what I'm doing tomorrow!



The pictures don't do them justice, either.

 

NAPA has an older fellow who fully believes in keeping printed catalogs on hand. Both the computer and the print catalog came up with the same PN. FWIW, they just shut down the NAPA nearest me, and two of the people who got laid off went to AutoZone. One of them is the commercial sales, he is the one who tried to match up the U-joint and finally suggested I go to NAPA since they had printed catalogs, he hates relying on just the computer. I called and told him they had what I needed and the NAPA PN so he could see if their system could come up with a fit.

 

New, or a real good find?

 

New.

They seem to be usually $25-30 a piece, I've even seen some as much as $40 a piece. I got these for $22 a piece to my door.

 

Bill - Old codgers rule!

Matthew - Care to share the source? I need one for Rusty, as the one I got from David makes the other one look awful.

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/390978724825?_trksid=p2060778.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
It said 3 left when I bought mine, so it's probably two left. Buy them while you can. They're TYC replacements.

 

Thanks. But unfortunately they are in pairs and I only need one. And, I can get one for less than that.

 

They sell them individually for $28 a piece, a bit much if you ask me. Where have you gotten yours in the past?

 

That's where I got mine from about a year ago.
They fit perfect and look awesome.

 

I've gotten them from O'Reilly's - and paid too much. But they ordered in both the 80-86 and the 87+ ones to let me see what I thought. So I felt obliged to buy from them.

 

I looked at oreilly's and even on their site they didn't have them listed anymore. Not sure what's up with that.