What U joints 1959 American

Ok, I am finding some odd stuff when looking for U joints for my American. The one guy I trust is Galvins and they show two different ones, saying you need to pull the ones in the car out and measure it. All for 10 thousands of an inch!

I ran into this problem with my 59 rambler 10 series custom w/196 and automatic tranny. My yoke and ujoint was destroyed from the previous owner, good thing there was a cap left which I measured and came out to be that odd ball 1.010 size. surprisingly the driveshaft was still good so I tried looking for the ujoint through local supliers in hopes of finding it at a cheaper price....heck no had no luck at all, even tried a few driveshaft shops and that was a dead end so I had to ordered the ujoint and yoke from an amc suplier Blasers and the ujoint was correct....but the yoke was different 1.00 size instead of 1.010. Tried installing the ujoint, no way, tried honing it, no go, that's some strong medal so I returned it got another one, still the wrong yoke (1.00) so I returned that and had them double check the part and measure it before they sent it and sure enough they finally sent me the right one! That goofy 1.010 ujoint and yoke size is correct on some models, probably on the earlier models and that .010 difference Does make a difference. It's just an oddy but best thing to do tho is take it off and measure it and go from there.


Edited by Ramblage - Jan/16/2015 at 1:54am

Lol yes it does!