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Dave, those beautifully taped transmission gasket kits arrived yesterday in great shape. Not even a scrape or wear spot on them. Someone took good care of them on their way south. Thank you very much for sending them to me. I was surprised to see the 1986 date on them. I had no idea Canada used these trucks that late into the 80's.Finally got a few minutes to mush the huskies off to the post office and send off two seal kits. I'll PM the tracking number to you. They asked how much value we'd put on them for insurance purposes so I explained they may be the last of 10 on the planet and I'd like it if they didn't lose them.....$10.00 please. Let's hope they get these out to you in good shape. They're not packaged but the little lady at the counter did a fine job of taping the original packages together. Get a picture when they arrive so we can all have a laugh.
I picked up a u-joint yesterday in my effort to find a modern part number for them. Doing a little bit of research, I found that the CCKW guys use this u-joint for their trucks. I have nothing to base my hunch that this is right for our truck other than in my mind it makes sense for GMC to design a truck that would use some of the parts already in the military warehouses for the GM trucks already in use.
I will try to remove one of the old u-joints out of a spare drive line soon and compare the two. Just holding this up next to the drive line.....it looks very promising. You can't see it in the picture but these are grease-able and the zerk is in the package with the clips.