Future Daily Driver

[rodneyb94]

Howdy folks,

I picked up a 1960 C10 a while ago with the intent of making it a daily driver. But, as with most things in life, it always takes longer than you expect.

Here is a partial list of things I have been able to tackle so far:

Disc brakes on the front
Power brake booster
Separate clutch master cylinder
All new brake lines
Rebuild the rear drum brakes
Rebuild the parking brake
Complete front suspension rebuild
Rebuilt the steering box, new rag joint
Remove the rear air bags and replace them with 3" drop springs
I am sure there is more, but that is all I can remember at the moment.

Next step was to address the leak in the differential. I pulled the rear cover and ran into the next issue. As you can see from the pics below, someone took a grinder to the diff carrier for some reason I cannot explain. Has anyone ever seen this type of "custom" modification?



After doing a little research, I am pretty sure this is an Eaton HO32 or the GM 55T. It has the 3.90 gear ratio in it.

From my understanding, I could pull this rear end and replace it with one from a 63-66 C10 with minimal modification. But, my goal would be to get this one back into working order.

Any thoughts/ideas/comments/questions on how to proceed?

Thanks in advance for the help,
Rodney