I got the rear torque tube back together and in the truck ,connected to the transmission .replaced the axle bearings and just waiting for my brake shoes to come in to put the truck back on its feet.To sum it up if anyone is doing the 355 gear swap with a Canadian truck don’t bother with using a carrier from the USA built trucks .I don’t know we’re the imformation came from to use a carrier but there is to many other differences that go along with it even found that the spacer block is shorter on a US model .The rear axle can be identified by the side of the housing .The US version will have 3 stripes on the one side were the Canadian model does not so it is best to do the swap using the same rear end .and the only difference would be to drill out the Canadian carrier to match the ring gear like Curt has done .On to the next fix .Kevin
