Almost lost the VX today, bad experience with Indy4x parts

[LittleBeast]

I called the drivetrain place back and they just said "the part number was correct but for some odd reason it did not work in the car" so I still don't know what the deal was exactly with the faulty u-joint from Indy.

I also asked them what the part number was for the U-joint they found that would work in the VX and evidently the U-joint that is in my VX now is a "custom" u-joint. The guys at the DriveTrain shop found a u-joint with the same cross member size and then found a u-joint with the same cap size and put the 2 different u-joints components together to make a VX U-joint, and it is working great!

[Cobrajet]

...a u-joint with the same cross member size and then found a u-joint with the same cap size and put the 2 different u-joints components together to make a VX U-joint...

That was very common in the muscle car days when we were swapping engines/transmissions and rearends between cars at the auto hobby shop on base. I'm sure it's the same deal with off-road monstrosities.