Front U-Joint part# ??

[waldrtw]

All,

I am looking for the Toyota part# for the front U-joint on a 94 Landcruiser. My local Toyota dealer is telling me that I have to buy the whole shaft for $400!!!
I have checked and NAPA has it but I would like to stick with Toyota parts. Any help would be great .

Tim

 

[OGBeno]

Front ones are smaller than the rears, IIRC: 04371-60070

 

[Riad]

All,

I am looking for the Toyota part# for the front U-joint on a 94 Landcruiser. My local Toyota dealer is telling me that I have to buy the whole shaft for $400!!!
I have checked and NAPA has it but I would like to stick with Toyota parts. Any help would be great .

Tim

Your local dealer told you to replace the whole shaft just because of one U-Joint or there's some thing else wrong with your front shaft? General consensus is: OEM u-joints are better than the after market u-joints. So you are making right decision. Call Dan at American Toyota for the OEM joints.

 

[waldrtw]

Thanks for the Part #. I just placed the order for a new one. Cost was around 55 for back shaft u-joint and 56 for the front shaft. The parts guy told me that Toyota did not give a part number for the front U-joint because they say it is not serviceable??

Tim

 

[Tools R Us]

:whoops: Dan would have saved you some coin!

 

[Beowulf]

:whoops: Dan would have saved you some coin!

And Dan probably has both U-joints in stock and the guy would have received the correct parts just as quickly with a suggestion to get new fasteners at the same time which also would have been the correct part numbers and in stock.

Some never learn.

I have checked and NAPA has it but I would like to stick with Toyota parts. Any help would be great .

FYI Timmy, you can search back in the archives for a thread by Landtank. He was helping someone at his house with a U-joint problem. For some reason, they had to use a non-OEM U-joint and there was some type of major fitment issue or something. I can't recall the gory details but the mantra to always use OEM U-joints is indelibly burned in my remaining brain cells. It was quite a fiasco as I recall.

-B-