Axle was in good shape - A broken elocker bulkhead was the only casualty.
I had some fun figuring out the electronic parking brake and plan to retrofit that in place of my cable. Axle now has 3/16” 4130 gussets everywhere:
I carefully stitch welded and reinforced and gussetted the front of the frame ( I plan to add more later)
It helped having
@GooseTuned gen 3 on the lift next to my gen 2
Measuring back and forth between the trucks helped to answer many of my questions.
Fyi’s: Gen 3 wheel bearings are much larger than gen2. The gen3 spindle is also unique to acccomodate the eIWE. Therefore I will plan to use my gen2 spindles/hubs/iwe at least for now. This will necessitate the taller misalignment spacer and longer bolt
The 2017 and early 2018 with cable parking brake caliper has a smaller bolt spacing than the later ePB caliper.
The electronic parking brake caliper works by +12V closes brake caliper, and -12V opens the brake caliper. I love it! Not sure how I’m going to set it up quite yet, but I am intrigued at the possibilities
Gen3 diff is noticeably lower and the cv axle angle is substantially improved