Help!!! Rear driveshaft problems

[88chevys10]

Allright.. here is the issue.. I bought a Bronco 2 as my daily driver. It had what im guessing is called the gkn conversion? It has the cv type u joints.. anyways.. My boot on the last one was bad and i didnt know it when i bought it.. the driveshaft went out. Now every auto parts place I go.. there driveshafts will not fit. Autozone had one for 600 dollars that said it would replace the cv type.. but I only paid 600 for the truck so i would not like to have to do that. After trying about 4 other driveshafts I went to a junkyard. found the cv type in a 89 b2. manual trans. 4wd just like mine. it had a tore boot as well.. so i pulled it apart put on a universal cv boot filled it with grease and put it up.. well its to short. the ball part is pulled out.. I dont know if they used a different tranny in 89 or what that may be throwin this off. so im having a machine shop make me about a inch and half spacer for it.. but does anyone know where i can get a driveshaf that actually fits?

 

[pattygook]

Hey, I've got an 87 B2 and my driveshaft went out a couple months ago (torn boot also). I bought a new one at auto zone for around $150 i think and it bolted right in with no problems. All i had to do was measure the length of the DS and tell auto zone. I don't remember if i got the DS with or without the GKN conversion, but I did get the cheaper one and it works well.

 

[88chevys10]

Hey, I've got an 87 B2 and my driveshaft went out a couple months ago (torn boot also). I bought a new one at auto zone for around $150 i think and it bolted right in with no problems. All i had to do was measure the length of the DS and tell auto zone. I don't remember if i got the DS with or without the GKN conversion, but I did get the cheaper one and it works well.

really... hmmm... that would be nice.. the only one znet. (autozones system) says that will replace the cv type is the 600 dollar one.. ill check back into it tomorro i guess.