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Swapping rear end, Drive shaft issues

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Old 09-03-2012, 10:37 PM
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Yes...........
 
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Did some more research and my wheel base and total length of the truck are longer. So I guess my best best if just to remove the flange situation.
 
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As for the transmission....you said it came out of a 1500 and those all have 46re/rh....but im not sure if theres a difference if its a manual trans
 
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Chances are you can move the flange part from the new drive-shaft to your drive-shaft.
 
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I mean a difference driveshaft wise because manuals are nv3500 in 1500s
 
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Old 09-03-2012, 11:13 PM
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Merc I think you might be correct. Im still waiting for him to send me a pic of the drive shaft
 
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Merc I think you might be correct. Im still waiting for him to send me a pic of the drive shaft
I have all the flange parts here to up-grade my truck, so I am pretty sure you can do this with ezzzz. All you will have to do is swap the cross joints out.
 
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Old 09-03-2012, 11:29 PM
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Now how will this push the ds too far forward? Lol
 
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No it will be the same, look at your pix, look at where the pinion nut sits on each diff, the old one sits in deep, the new one sit's out, it should work out to be the same.
 
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Originally Posted by merc225hp
Chances are you can move the flange part from the new drive-shaft to your drive-shaft.
+1 probably. if he gets the drive shaft from the donor truck, just to get the little round flange part - he can move that round flange to his drive shaft.

if not - worst case, change out the pinion flange.
 


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