Being a beautiful day today I decided to go out and swap some rears around.
First I took the nice 8.8 3.27 rear out of a junker and put it in my shed for safe keeping. Then I took the toasted 7.5 rear out of my 85 coupe and put it in the junker. For the coupe I had bought a 8.8 3.73 for some kick. I had bought this rear from a local guy for $300 (not a bad deal with the edelbrock lowers attached.)
While bolting it in to the coupe I noticed that the brake hose was cut on the new rear by the junction block. I went to remove the junction block to find that the bolt was stripped and needed to be ground off. Being that this was an unkown rear I pulled the cover to check for gear wear and for any heavy metal. Luckly there was no problems inside the pumpkin. Well I put new fluid in and then go around to doing the emergency brake hook up. One side was great the other... UGGH Axle seal mess!!! Note to self always remove brake drums first!!!
Oh well guess it's time to get the ranger 31 sp center and some nice discs for the rear.
First I took the nice 8.8 3.27 rear out of a junker and put it in my shed for safe keeping. Then I took the toasted 7.5 rear out of my 85 coupe and put it in the junker. For the coupe I had bought a 8.8 3.73 for some kick. I had bought this rear from a local guy for $300 (not a bad deal with the edelbrock lowers attached.)
While bolting it in to the coupe I noticed that the brake hose was cut on the new rear by the junction block. I went to remove the junction block to find that the bolt was stripped and needed to be ground off. Being that this was an unkown rear I pulled the cover to check for gear wear and for any heavy metal. Luckly there was no problems inside the pumpkin. Well I put new fluid in and then go around to doing the emergency brake hook up. One side was great the other... UGGH Axle seal mess!!! Note to self always remove brake drums first!!!
Oh well guess it's time to get the ranger 31 sp center and some nice discs for the rear.