Swap solutions: Rear axles

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This "Swap Solutions" series of Wiki articles is intended to help the customizer, swapper, shade-tree mechanic, or junkyard crawler.
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This "Swap Solutions" series of Wiki articles is intended to help the customizer, swapper, shade-tree mechanic or junkyard crawler.
  
 
The idea is  this: when you pull an axle, engine, tranny, driveshaft, bearing, or ANYTHING from your car, measure the heck out of it.  
 
The idea is  this: when you pull an axle, engine, tranny, driveshaft, bearing, or ANYTHING from your car, measure the heck out of it.  
  
Countless times I've found myself wishing I had a source to know if this axle will fit that car, how much that ISB Cummins engine weighs, or if a driveshaft already exists that fits my custom install instead of paying to have one fabricated.
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Countless times I've found myself wishing I had a source to know if this axle will fit that car, how much that ISB Cummins engine weighs or if a driveshaft already exists that fits my custom install instead of paying to have one fabricated.
  
 
This article is for Rear Axles. The basic idea is so that when shopping for a 9" Ford to put under a custom-chassis, the user can scroll through and review a listing of axles that will fit (or come close) and possibly avoid headaches.
 
This article is for Rear Axles. The basic idea is so that when shopping for a 9" Ford to put under a custom-chassis, the user can scroll through and review a listing of axles that will fit (or come close) and possibly avoid headaches.
  
Using the formatting below, start adding info. You can't add too much information. Make sure you give the application(s), year(s) and any possible tidbit you can. If someone can format this better than I can, please do, but basically use your codes to make columns for the following characteristics.</p>
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Using the formatting below, start adding info. You can't add too much information. Make sure you give the application(s), year(s) and any possible tidbits you can. If someone can format this better than I can, please do, but basically use your codes to make columns for the following characteristics.</p>
  
 
#Axle family (like GM 8.5&quot; ten bolt, or Dana 44)
 
#Axle family (like GM 8.5&quot; ten bolt, or Dana 44)

Revision as of 17:58, 31 August 2007

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