8.8 swap

Well i got one, or will have it in my shop this weekend. Been hitting up my local facebook trader. Found a 2001 xploder XLT V8 302 with a 3L73 rear. So its a locker. Guy wanted $300 for the whole truck, but no title, only a hand written bill of sale. I explained that the salvage yards out here wont take em without a title. Not unless i chop it into small pieces to get rid of it and run it across the scales at the scrap metals place. Still a lot of work to recoup some of my $300. I asked if the V8 ran, he said its locked up. So if the engine ran, i prob woulda gotten the whole truck and sold the motor and trans to a hot rodder and maybe made offset the cost of buying the whole truck. Then cut it up for scrap and made a few more. All being said, i am going on an hour trip one way to pick it up, and pull it and the driveshaft for $300. My local boneyards want $350 for one and i got to pull it anyways, plus i got to crawl under a bunch of em and check tags in hopes of finding a good ratio w a locker. So by this weekend i will have entered the Furd Xploder 8.8 club. Now i need a short side axle.

I coulda done the Dallas area loop 12 wrecking yards for one of these cheaper, but they punch a hole in the diff cover to drain the fluids out, and its 2.5 hours away 1 way, and you have to hope they have what you need. If not your gonna drive back empty handed another 2.5 hours. So for all this, i feel $300 and a road trip is a good price.