What Jerry said. Doing what you describe would still need a seal at the rear of the transmission if reusing the original transmission. And some sort of seal at the front of the torque tube as well to keep dirt out of the differential. Much better to ditch the torque tube and go with a different open driveshaft style transmission and differential.


Kevin
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1929 Ford pickup restored from the ground up. | 1929 Ford Special Coupe (First car)
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