parts from walck's

has anybody purchased kingpins from them? i can get kingpin bearings,cups,pinion seal,knuckle seals and something else i cannot remember for under 170. from 4wd hardware it's almost 300 and they use a lot of omix ada stuff. i only want to do this job once and for the price i can't beat it. any opinions?

 

I ordered some 2 weeks ago. The bearing races were backordered but they only took an extra week to get to me. The parts seemed decent enought to me, and don't leak at all yet

 

Never bought kingpins, but have gotten lots of stuff from them over the last couple years, always great service and great items IMO.

 

Walcks has always been a great source for me plus carl will talk to you and you can pick his brain

 

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Yep, I always call Carl first when looking for something. I bought my bearings locally though. Timken does make all the bearings and races you would need and I want to say Carl likes to sell all Timken

 

Got all my bearings from napa went with the oversea parts from japan about half the price of Timken but they seemed nice enough. Only time will tell though.

 

When I got stuff from him in the past he would give me 2 prices, one for import and 1 for US. I usually asked him which would you use if it were your Jeep and he gave an honest answer.

 

thanks everyone for the replies.

 

i used walks to build the steering on an m38. still offshore stuff. shaft bushings did not fit, but they didn't fit from anyone else. had to turn some out myself. bearings & tie rod ends were ok, worm shaft had a couple of tight spots but nothing that you couldn't live with considering where it came from. at least carl called a few days later to ask how the worm had worked out, i think he was holding his breath. they have very good customer service, but parts are parts as far as jeeps go anymore. i think i only made $.50 an hour on that job due to parts quality.
andy

 

Some parts you only have one choice for and others you can shop brands. Bearings is one you can shop

 

I put new bearing in one side of the 2a last month and got them from bearing 2000 .com they were like 6 something for the bearing and 3 something for the race. A better deal than I could find at any jeep parts or flaps store. HTH fdpwr2a

 

Walck's is great, super prices, good advice parts always right. Only time I had a problem was when I ordered the wrong parts! I shoulda asked first! They are great!

 

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Side question, about Walck's;

I see he sells a wiring harness for a DJ3A. Is this a correct, pretty much restoration-quality harness? Would you guys recommend it for my '63 daily driver DJ's "budget restoration"?

 

As to Walck's, I'm glad they are in the business, and they seem like good people.

But it is definitely necessary to "check" the parts. I ordered an air horn and the rubber flex tube to the air-cleaner. Both were shoddy junk, very poor repro and almost unusable. Plus I could have had good used originals from ebay at the same price.

 

Thanks. I may just make my own replacement harness.

Any other opinions on Walcks' wiring harnesses?