Wow, every time I run into a problem, NCdiesel is two steps ahead of me

You may all recall, I'm swapping in a c223 from an '81 pup into my '79 postal jeep. Well, things were humming right along until I called my local driveline shop for some help with the rear driveline. They seemed to think that anything besides a stock rear single cardan u-joint for the slip yoke at the back of the axle was unavailable. Now, I admit that the angle down to the rear differential is a little severe, and that a normal u-joint is not going to cut it, but I would think there has to be *something* available. JERRY, I noticed you mentioned a double-cardan joint. Do you (or anybody) know a supplier for such a joint that will work with the 4 speed tranny/transfer case combo out of the '81 diesel pups? (I believe it's a MSG-4T???)

Rough measurements are 21 inches from rear of output shaft in tranny to center of u-joint on the rear diff. Roughly 9 inches of drop from shaft to shaft. That works out to about a 25 degree angle.

Now, I could tilt the engine/tranny a bit to get a little bit better angle, but from what I understand, doing that would require some sort of cv (or near-cv) joint anyways, since the two shafts wouldn't be in the same plane anymore.

I read as much of the tutorial at http://www.pirate4x4.com/tech/billavista/PR-shaft/index.html as would come up (I started getting connection refused errors), but it sounds like a double cardan joint would be the way to go. If anybody knows somebody who can make such a thing for my tranny, I'd really appreciate hearing about it.

Thanks all!

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ps. I'm working on getting some pics up on the web.