I'm F'ed
I'm F'ed
Last edited by 55 Tony; 05-22-2018 at 11:31 AM.
Tony
1955 Bel Air Sport Coupe
How long were your old axles. Is the housing the same width now.
I'm left to half ass put this together using a different bearing that does get pressed onto the axle and then adding a shim of sorts because the other bearing isn't as wide. Either that or buy new ends again, pull the rear again, take it to get the new ends welded on again and put it back together again. F me.
Tony
1955 Bel Air Sport Coupe
Last edited by markm; 05-22-2018 at 01:58 PM.
To make things worse, I put my new cover on too early and it's "glued" so I don't want to take it off. Can anyone tell me how much room there is between the splined gears and the center rod? 1/2"?
Tony
1955 Bel Air Sport Coupe
Well I lucked out ... in a way. I won't even say what axles I got since at least someone will say they are crap, but they fit perfect into the sort of unknown new housing ends. Drove it the past two days with the new 4.10 gears. Compared to the 3.42 gears, it goes like a r*ped ape but that's just with street tires so far. Today before it got to hot out and the tranny wasn't too hot either, no doubt about it, a nice loud chirp in 3rd! Only did it once though. Sort of breaking in the gears my way, giving it a little of everything before putting the slicks on. Oh, they are Richmond gears and I can't hear any whine at all. Maybe I did something right, or maybe I got lucky? I have some other work to do and if the weather holds out tomorrow, I hope to go to the track with slicks.
Tony
1955 Bel Air Sport Coupe