Looks like a decent, complete Eaton rear axle out of a 71 C20. Not sure of ratio.
let me know what pics you need.
let me know what pics you need.
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CO Eaton rear axle
- Thread starter bradshawtech
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If I was keeping the c10 and you were closer, I would be interested.
Sometimes they have Detroit lockers. Those locker are worth a couple hundred by themselves. 4.10 is a very desirable ratio if you decide to pop the cover.
Any chance you've driven it? The rear axle in my C20 is noisy so I've been passively looking for a replacement.
Is yours leaf spring or coil like this one?
I’ll pull the rear cover tomorrow and check for a locker and get the ratio.
Coils. I kinda wish it was leaf because it'd be easier to swap out.
you built a flatbed unit and bobbed a truck down but cant cut & weld a set of perches and shock mounts ?
and fyi . i heard and read years ago a set of 14ff shafts and detroit make them a locker axle over finding the hard to find locker and get you fine spline shafts .
This confuses me. If you have coil springs, and this one has coil springs, what's so difficult? The coil spring trucks have 2 U bolts and a panhard bar. Simple.
Hell, I once had to put the carrier and ring gear back into my C10 at 1 A.M. after getting back from a wrecker call, so that I could go home. The worst part of an axle swap is bleeding the brakes!
@bradshawtech how much are you asking for the cab? And I assume that it doesn't have a title, correct?
I didn't want clutter your build thread to ask.
I didn't want clutter your build thread to ask.
4.10 gear ratio.
How bad is the rust????
How bad is the rust????
None scientific, but I've run worse without issue. Installed and ran for a few hundred miles then changed fluid and reset blacklash with a fluid change.
I mean easier to find a bolt-it replacement. I would like to get a dana60 but those only came with coils for 1 or 2 years.
That's why I posted in this thread, cause this axle would be an easy swap. Just not sure if it's better than what I have. It is better gearing as I have 4.57 gears.
@bradshawtech, I think as long as there isn't serious pitting, it might be fine. I wonder how the bearings are. What do you want for it?
Make me an offer, I don’t have a number in mind.
it rolls smooth and for sure doesn’t have the locker. I can let you have anything and everything in the pics or only what you need.
whoever started to part out this truck cut the u-joint bolts with a torch so you’ll need to use yours.
I will shoot you a PM
I stripped it pretty well today, I’ll get pics in the daylight tomorrow. For sure it needs rockers and a few inches into the floor pans and the side walls of the footwells. Cab corners seem to be good. Doors seem solid too, uncut for speakers
How complete of a cab do you need? I’m told that I can get the title but I haven’t pursued it yet.
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I don't need a cab, but that doesn't stop me from checking into one that looked decent in the first pictures. I have some parts for a possible future project.
I run across guys who are looking once in a while, which is also part of why I asked.
The doors sound like something useable.
Thanks for the condition report.
What’s a serviceable cab go for nowadays?
