DA BIG ONE
07-29-2005, 00:30
Awhile back I had purchased a rebuilt front axle (driveshaft w/cv joints) from NAPA, installed it, but eventually ran into a problem w/CV boot hitting suspension parts resulting in boot failure.
NAPA swears up and down right/left axles are the same, but clearly there are two different axles in my truck now. The original driveshaft/cv joint has a smaller diameter at the upper cv joint almost an inch and a half (3/4" between flange bolt and cv joint), the axle NAPA gave me justs has enough space (socket wall thickness) between the flange bolts and cv joint to get a socket over them to tighten them.
Consider, 1999 is a transision year and many repair manuals only go to 1998.
I spent time at GM this morning they used my vin # to come up with driveshaft from diff flange to outside spindle part # 26062614 (right/left same #), however, NAPA has no cross ref for that # so they are ordering a 2000 axle to see if it the right one.
Help!
[ 07-31-2005, 09:25 PM: Message edited by: DA BIG ONE ]
NAPA swears up and down right/left axles are the same, but clearly there are two different axles in my truck now. The original driveshaft/cv joint has a smaller diameter at the upper cv joint almost an inch and a half (3/4" between flange bolt and cv joint), the axle NAPA gave me justs has enough space (socket wall thickness) between the flange bolts and cv joint to get a socket over them to tighten them.
Consider, 1999 is a transision year and many repair manuals only go to 1998.
I spent time at GM this morning they used my vin # to come up with driveshaft from diff flange to outside spindle part # 26062614 (right/left same #), however, NAPA has no cross ref for that # so they are ordering a 2000 axle to see if it the right one.
Help!
[ 07-31-2005, 09:25 PM: Message edited by: DA BIG ONE ]