After you asked and I went to the shop and looked I felt it was kind of self explanatory. Your description confirms it is a closed drive shaft. Added a few pics. I also discovered some numbers on the driver side of the rear end housing. They appear to be vertical by the attachment screw head castings and I believe them to be either A 8 or 4 8. I lean toward the 48 because I really worked to expose them and just cant convince myself it is an A.
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Rear end numbers

Last edited by DadsFirstPickup; 09/30/2022 12:06 PM.

Brendan
1940 Chevrolet 1/2-Ton Pickup
Restoring Dad's old truck
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