Thanks for the suggestion. The perches may be salvagable. They are kind of mashed up on the front which isn't too visible in the picture. I'll look some more and see how bad they are.

I looked at the situation some more and had further observations. The angle of the drive shaft is totally off. There is a u-joint coming out of the transfer case, the drive shaft has the double cardan joint in the middle and there is a u-joint into the diff. As I understand it, the double cardan is a "cv" joint and doesn't figure into the angle determination. However, the two u-joints at the ends do, and the shafts should be parallel. This is not the case, so I'll have to right the problem.

Eric,

Do you know the diameter of your axle housing? Is it 3 inches or 3.1 or 3.25? I measured 3.25 (sort of) and see 3.1 and 3.0 inch diameters on the web.

Thanks for your help and advice and thanks in advance.

Chip