I believe most people on here will agree that Ford Racing makes the best gears for our cars.
Definitely Ford. I've heard from several people that their gears are so close in tolerances you can take a ring out of one rear end and put it in another rear with a different pinion and it'll be just fine (assuming they're the same ratio of course).
Definitely Ford. I've heard from several people that their gears are so close in tolerances you can take a ring out of one rear end and put it in another rear with a different pinion and it'll be just fine (assuming they're the same ratio of course).
Make sure whoever you buy them from that the gears are american made, Ive also heard of american companies that are shipping thier work to china, so you have to watch out. Just because your buying them through an american company dosent mean they are made here
Make sure whoever you buy them from that the gears are american made, Ive also heard of american companies that are shipping thier work to china, so you have to watch out. Just because your buying them through an american company dosent mean they are made here
Plenty of American companies manufacture in china...and the quality sucks.
My company does this, and I just caught them forging inspection reports and material certs (subpar, weaker steel). Its kinda funny because I think a 6 year old could have faked this data better. Needless to say....interesting day at work today dealing with the fallout.
Don't buy Chinese anything...keep it in the us
You know, I was at Ace Hardware the other day, fishing through the fasteners because I needed some stuff for the car. I noticed that all the stainless bolts were looking hazy and had rough edges on the threads, not the kind of quality I'm used to when buying nuts and bolts from them. Looked on the box, and sure enough they were made in China. After that, I started fishing around some of the other types of fasteners, and everything I looked at was made in China. And these were "American" threads, not metric! That blew me away. Even the nuts and bolts we buy these days are made in China.
I didn't look at the grade 8 hardware. I should have, that's what holds a lot of my suspension and brakes together. I'm gonna lose sleep if that stuff was made in China.
Plenty of American companies manufacture in china...and the quality sucks.
My company does this, and I just caught them forging inspection reports and material certs (subpar, weaker steel). Its kinda funny because I think a 6 year old could have faked this data better. Needless to say....interesting day at work today dealing with the fallout.
Don't buy Chinese anything...keep it in the us
if the company i work for made everything in the US no one could afford our stuff.
yea i buy alot of stuff from ace too, and one time i got home, i had a nut that would not thread, the threads were totall junk, so now whatever i buy there i make sure that the threads are good before i leave. Its amazing how much quality varies from bolt to bolt. The only way to get a quality fastener is to buy one from a dedicated fastener supplier
I work for an engineering consulting company, and one of our biggest corporate customers has a note on their material specifications that reads something like "Do not accept X material from China due to liability reasons". That's not exactly it, but it's something along those lines. It basically says purchasing can accept material from ANY country other co
So..... (dumb question on the way, and sorry for the hijack)
I have 2.73 gears in a stock 8.8 rear. If I buy a genuine set of Ford Racing 3.55 ring and pinion gears, I have a good chance of everything mating up properly? I know there's more to it than just swapping them out, but on general principles, it's usually ok? I see these master bearing kits, should I buy one of those too?
I hear ya, Mike. One funny story I was always told by one of my previous bosses was about a jet-turbine housing (cylindrical) that had two groups of radial holes, one clocked vertical and one horizontal, that he helped design at one of HIS previous jobs. For whatever reason they had a Chinese shop make this part, and the housings came back with the two groups of holes right next to each other, not clocked 90* apart. The Chinese's argument was that the drawing for the part had no 90* dimension on it. :nutkick:
What I was told (back in the day) is that with FRPP gears, you can reuse the same size shim on the pinion gear, from the stock gears to the FRPP ones. You still have to check backlash and shim the carrier side-to-side to get the gears within spec.
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