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Just to close this loop I received my u-joint and it appears to be New Old stock with Rockwell branding on the box and stamped into the actual u-joint. It was actually missing two of the sea clips and there was some mild surface rest on the outside of the Caps which went away with a wire wheel...

Yeah I've got a set of Selectro locking hubs on it from the previous owner so there's that

Yes absolutely and it can be easy to miss that since those washers can have the appearance of being a permanently attached part of the axle shaft rather than the (replaceable) washer that they are. In fact I believe the TM calls for replacing them every time you do axle job if I remember correctly.

Yeah this makes sense, maybe I was just trying to justify spending over $100 on grease ; )

Creating this thread since I didn't see this info in the forums anywhere. When opening the passenger side knuckle we found needle bearings in the grease from where the ujoint had failed, not sure why. Trying to source one was fun as most of the info is on driveline ujoints and the surplus...