Spicer U-Joints - Whose Got Them?
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Spicer U-Joints - Whose Got Them?
The general consensus on the forum seems to be in favor of using Spicer u-joints. So does anyone know of an online supplier with a good price? No one locally seems to have access to Spicer. Rock has everything but.
'86, AT, rear half shaft joints 3.07 rear
'86, AT, rear half shaft joints 3.07 rear
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Bogus, are you saying AC Delco reboxes spicer as standard practice? Rock Auto is the only place I've seen that has a few different AC Delco joints available. Called Tom's, no one's home and none of the distributors in my area seem to have access to Spicer.
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I got mine through a local truck driveline specialist who's a Spicer dealer. Because the company I work for does business with them regularly, I got them at the jobber price. But even retail should be reasonable through them. The numbers you want are 5-800X for the halfshafts and 5-786X for the driveshaft. Check under truck parts in the yellow pages.
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Originally Posted by C4boy
Bogus, are you saying AC Delco reboxes spicer as standard practice? Rock Auto is the only place I've seen that has a few different AC Delco joints available. Called Tom's, no one's home and none of the distributors in my area seem to have access to Spicer.
I installed Delco ujoints, and I am pretty sure they said 'Spicer' on them.
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napa auto parts u-joints for vettes are spicers, about $18.00 a piece, if i remember right
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St. Jude Donor '04-'05-'06-'07
My NAPA store informed me that NAPA no longer offers Spicer joints. Perhaps they're wrong but that's what they said.
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Originally Posted by C4boy
The general consensus on the forum seems to be in favor of using Spicer u-joints. So does anyone know of an online supplier with a good price? No one locally seems to have access to Spicer. Rock has everything but.
'86, AT, rear half shaft joints 3.07 rear
'86, AT, rear half shaft joints 3.07 rear
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Originally Posted by Corvette Kid
My NAPA store informed me that NAPA no longer offers Spicer joints. Perhaps they're wrong but that's what they said.
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I just called my buddy, NAPA doesn't stock them, but they can special order them and they aren't too cheap anymore.
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I just called my buddy, NAPA doesn't stock them, but they can special order them and they aren't too cheap anymore.
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Thanks for all the info so far. I did call a local driveshaft specialist but he didn't have the Spicers in stock. He could order them @ $35 each (which is probably list) so I passed on him for now. I usually use a friend's garage name to get dealer price, but I just gave them the part#.
We have 3 or 4 local Jobbers/wholesale distributors that most of the parts stores buy from, but none of them carry Spicer either.
I think Bogus is right in that the AC Delco boxed joints ($20 ea.) are probably Spicers. I'll check into that. A lot of the chains box other manufacturers products in their own packaging, so I'll check a local NAPA and Autozone as well. Summit online was NG and I think Tom was out to lunch or fixin someone's rear end.
I did find a bunch of good info and resources while looking into all this and and I'll post it when I'm finished.
We have 3 or 4 local Jobbers/wholesale distributors that most of the parts stores buy from, but none of them carry Spicer either.
I think Bogus is right in that the AC Delco boxed joints ($20 ea.) are probably Spicers. I'll check into that. A lot of the chains box other manufacturers products in their own packaging, so I'll check a local NAPA and Autozone as well. Summit online was NG and I think Tom was out to lunch or fixin someone's rear end.
I did find a bunch of good info and resources while looking into all this and and I'll post it when I'm finished.
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Originally Posted by C4boy
Thanks for all the info so far. I did call a local driveshaft specialist but he didn't have the Spicers in stock. He could order them @ $35 each (which is probably list) so I passed on him for now. I usually use a friend's garage name to get dealer price, but I just gave them the part#.
We have 3 or 4 local Jobbers/wholesale distributors that most of the parts stores buy from, but none of them carry Spicer either.
I think Bogus is right in that the AC Delco boxed joints ($20 ea.) are probably Spicers. I'll check into that. A lot of the chains box other manufacturers products in their own packaging, so I'll check a local NAPA and Autozone as well. Summit online was NG and I think Tom was out to lunch or fixin someone's rear end.
I did find a bunch of good info and resources while looking into all this and and I'll post it when I'm finished.
We have 3 or 4 local Jobbers/wholesale distributors that most of the parts stores buy from, but none of them carry Spicer either.
I think Bogus is right in that the AC Delco boxed joints ($20 ea.) are probably Spicers. I'll check into that. A lot of the chains box other manufacturers products in their own packaging, so I'll check a local NAPA and Autozone as well. Summit online was NG and I think Tom was out to lunch or fixin someone's rear end.
I did find a bunch of good info and resources while looking into all this and and I'll post it when I'm finished.
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Came back from Napa, Advance and Autozone. The standard joints that all 3 had in stock were stamped "china", as in made in. They all had grease fittings and all looked like the same joint. Just sold in Napa or PDQ boxes. The high performance joint the 3 stores list is probably the version w/o a zerk fitting.
Corvette Kid, the price on the Delcos came from Rock. And they seem to sell around dealer wholesale.
Corvette Kid, the price on the Delcos came from Rock. And they seem to sell around dealer wholesale.
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Corvette Kid, the price on the Delcos came from Rock. And they seem to sell around dealer wholesale.
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Just got back from the shop, my inner left side halfshaft u joint is bad, the freakin thing was only a few months old. It was a china made pos from napa, I took the first one they gave me back because of this. The second one they ordered was called heavy duty in their books, it was obviously far from it. Called Tom's Differentials and ordered one from him for $29.75, he gave me part # UJ-13. It should be a very nice piece looking at the notations on his site, plus, it's a Spicer. I also now learned exactly how to tell if the ujoint is bad so I won't have to go through the guess work anymore.
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I'm not familiar with the UJ-13 part #, though I've seen it on Tom's site. I had a local driveshaft supplier order a pair of Spicer 5-447x joints for me and they came boxed as solid, not greasable joints. So I'm still waiting for mine. If you get solid joints from Tom and they are really Spicers, check on whether or not you need to grease the caps before installing. Some of the solid spicer joints use a synthetic grease which is all that's needed.