Got my hands on a free rear axle from a newer style truck. I want to say it was a 2011. Has g80 and 3.42 gears so i went ahead and swapped it in. Ill go to 4.30s later on. There is only one major difference in the two axles, and that is the pinion yoke. The new one is strangly smaller.

 

man what a mess this has all been. so i got the newer axle in only to realize once i started driving it that it was bent. just barely tweaked. yay. so took it to zimmer gear here in baton rouge and had them hook me up with a truetrac and 4.10 gears. what can i say. i got nervous. lol. ill be picking her up today.

 

a little of the carnage for yall