Ya, your right. I have committed myself to doing the conversion mentally but im still searching for an axle in good condition. The salvage yard here only has two 05 and up axles but one was involved with a truck that burned and the other has to many miles on it for my likes. I searched Car-parts.com and they had several with over 100,000 miles and up but only one that had lower mileage at 33,000 miles with 4:10 gears DRW located in Oklahoma so i enquired about it but they havent responded yet.
I prefer to compile everything i need to do the job before rendering the truck unusable. Once everythings here i will tear into it and make a new post. In the mean time i will just amuse myself reading the posts telling me what a dummy i am for concerning myself with pinching pennies. Since everyone else is apparently independently wealthy, i feel somewhat ostracized for being disabled and surviving on a fixed income from my railroad pension. Since i specifically set aside the funds to do this conversion over several months, i plan to pinch every penny i can and post a full cost benefit analysis on every part i purchase just to annoy those who spend money just to spend money.
I gotta admit, im somewhat baffled, i was told that i gotta have thick skin on here at times, but then everyone runs away when i throw it back in their direction? LOL, i spent my entire adult life railroading for a living, my skin is so thick that a mountain lion could use me for a scratching post and i wouldnt bleed...
Its ok though, my two dogs love me..