As a follow up. I have an 02 sr5 rwd. The ujoints are clearly toast my part number ends in 60100. so today, I decided I'd go with the oem. Checked Toyota parts. 80 bucks is msrp on line. Found spicer for 40. Ugh I'll do it.

Then I started calling stealerships. YOU MUST BE ****ING KIDDING ME. first one.. 110 in stock. Next 90 but order. Third, 159! Nobody honors the on line price and you can't order from them online.

I'm an old Nissan maxima guy. At least Nissan had the dignity to set consistent prices. This is in Tampa Bay.

Now I'm not plugging Nissan by any means because they make trash now and don't tell you that they have different levels for parts. Key value is crap, but I found this practice absurd a 69 dollar difference in the same area??

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Try Rockauto for the U-joints Dana Spicer for about 25.00

Developed an odd vubration in my 01 2wd a week ago today. Made it home and got it to the shop today. Rear u joint tagged, ¼ of play in it. They are dealing the u jobs, front and rear of the shaft tomorrow. Going with Moog Precision greaseable replacements. Don't know the total cost yet but I'm assuming a 2 hours shop time and roughly 60/75 for the joints, so around 200 or so total. I hope.

At least you be able to grease the driveshaft now..

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I know this is an old thread....but IME, NOTHING comes remotely close to the quality/strength/reliability of genuine Toyota OEM ujoints. I think it was Jesse over at High Angle that did some destructive testing and posted results on the PBB back in they day and the standard Toyota OEM joints broke just below torque values for Spicer 1350 1 Ton rated joints. So close to 1T strength with 1/2T size and angularity capability. The breakage was recorded at max operating angle for both joints....which for a 1350 is relatively shallow at ~20° compared to 30+ for a Toyota joint. The metallurgy seemed to be the difference as non-OEM joints didn't fair any better than 1/2T 1310 stuff.

If the vibration is there after getting new joints, you need a whole new rear driveshaft. The 2WD shaft has a rubber isolated inner/outer tube design that wears out with time which can't be repaired.

-Charlie

The local shop replaced both the front and rear u joints with Moog Precision units today. Only the rear was shot but I figure I may as well replace both at the fans time.

Tiotal cost $163. Vibration gone. Now I can grease the joints as needed. 140k miles on the 01 SR5 2wd at the time of failure...

Thankful for this forum and its wealth of knowledge.