My Diff is toast

[SS Killer]

It looks like it's axle swap time.

I want to use a Moser Rear end housing and a Currie third member, cut off my housing ends and weld them to the Moser to retain my stock brakes and parking brake, and fab in a four link.

Is there an axle that would allow me to do this? Has anyone done this one here?

[Red03SilSS]

Ouch. Sorry to hear about that!

[DBRODS]

It looks like it's axle swap time.

I want to use a Moser Rear end housing and a Currie third member, cut off my housing ends and weld them to the Moser to retain my stock brakes and parking brake, and fab in a four link.

Is there an axle that would allow me to do this? Has anyone done this one here?[/QUOTE]



The only way that you could do that is if you bought the C-clip eliminator kit for the GM housing. Ford uses retainers on the axle ends to hold the axles in the housing, where GM uses C-clips in the carrier. I've actually never seen it done before. If you plan on doing this yourself make sure you have a narrowing kit to align the carrier to the housing ends or your rearend will eat bearings, and aligning the tubes by eye doesn't work.

[mean05]

heck yeah while you are in there you might as well do it right!!

[ducky]

yeah like V said, do it right hte first time

[PurpleMinivan]

QUICK CHANGE

[SS Killer]

Alright guys. Here's the deal.

I scored a Ford 9" for free. So:
I run a 9" housing and third member.
Move all my end brackets for brakes and such to the 9" housing using some form of a narrowing kit to make sure that I get the bearings lined up right.
Run a C-clip eliminator kit.
Run a Custom Driveshaft

The only trouble I should have is tracking down the axles. Worse comes to worse, Moser should be able to make me a custom set.

Next item on the list, positioning the axle. I'm going to put in a 4-link. And I have most of that covered as far as how I'm going to handle that.

While I'm fabing, I want to lose the oem gas tank and install a fuel cell where the spare tire used to be. This is going to be where I need some guidance but am sure I'll be able to get some input from a few trustworthy people. I'm going to pick up a 16 gallon from summit ($140) and fab up the mounts but after that, I'm lost.

Tell me what you think.

[ducky]

Alright guys. Here's the deal.

I scored a Ford 9" for free. So:
I run a 9" housing and third member.
Move all my end brackets for brakes and such to the 9" housing using some form of a narrowing kit to make sure that I get the bearings lined up right.
Run a C-clip eliminator kit.
Run a Custom Driveshaft

The only trouble I should have is tracking down the axles. Worse comes to worse, Moser should be able to make me a custom set.

Next item on the list, positioning the axle. I'm going to put in a 4-link. And I have most of that covered as far as how I'm going to handle that.

While I'm fabing, I want to lose the oem gas tank and install a fuel cell where the spare tire used to be. This is going to be where I need some guidance but am sure I'll be able to get some input from a few trustworthy people. I'm going to pick up a 16 gallon from summit ($140) and fab up the mounts but after that, I'm lost.

Tell me what you think.

DBRODS would know this best