Unfortunately NO. They have NO depressions in the middle of the joint & has the protruesion for a grease fitting if though one is not supplied or drilled. Tom T.
Rockauto's site said that they fit at all the areas on the 69 Riv driveshaft, do you have prt#'s I could go by??
Are these the ones Tom? Also does all 5 have to be like these or can I use a few of the acdelco ones I already bought and order a few of these?
I was going to pull the driveshaft and rebuild it this weekend but if I have to wait for different u joints I'll hold off.
I went with spicer, you can feel that they are of super high quality and are made in the USA. Although i had to customize two of them, they were to shallow in my case. My machnist was cursing on me, he said that he didn't work on such hard joints before. Still work in progress, now i need to force shaft guy to weld second basket exactly in line with rear one. Now they are mismatched buy 1 degree... Peace, Kacper.
I ended up buying 4 of the Dana Spicer joints for the double cardan joints and kept one of the other ones for the front trans joint. Hopefully I'll get to take it apart this weekend if I'm not working all weekend again.
When re-installing the drive shaft assembly be sure to keep the carrier mount loose. Set the front and rear on wood blocks so that you can safely work under the car. Then bounce the rear and ensure there is enough travel on the rear shaft to slip in and out of the front shaft with out placing undue horizontal force on the carrier mount. Then secure the mount by tightening the two bolts. If you don't do this you risk riping the bearing out of the mount or forcing the rubber to separate.
So, finally got around to this drive shaft rebuild and upon removal and closer inspection the shaft looks like it's been worked on before. I've heard/read about these shafts being a slipshaft but I think mine was replaced with a solid welded tube? Please let me know if I'm wrong. The only connection point in the two piece shaft (besides the double cardan joints) is at the center support bearing, bit it's bolted together with a big nut. Please see pics below.
Ok is it just me or are the Dana spicer795 ujoints too wide?? There's no way to get both clips in the grooves?? Even the body of the ujoint is larger on the spices compared to the stock 6987 joints. Fellas Please help!!
UPDATE: I couldn't leave the Riv on the side of the road on ramps for a week or two until the correct Dana Spicer joints came in so I went on a mission. I went to my local Napa and picked up one SFK UJ234 joint, they only had one but another location an hr south of me had 3 more, and a location an hr north of me had 2. The Napas up here close at noon on Saturdays and since it being 10:30am I knew I wouldn't make it to both stores. So I called my buddy up and called in a favour. He drove north and I drove south and by 3pm we had the shaft all back together,painted and in the car. I honestly don't care that they're Chinese joints atleast I get to drive the car. If they blow in a few years so be it I'll worry about it and do it again then.
