Ford 8.8" Rear... Should I do it?

jrlegacy23 said

You can, but you have to drill the plug welds and press the tubes out and press the tubes in. As that is the ideal/correct way, we did not have the means to do this. I was worried about the weld being a weak point, but he assured me that with the tig weld, this should not be the weak point of the axle by any means.

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Well, I don't see that the housing ends are symmetrical front to back, so pressing a short-side axle tube on the long side of the housing will make the brake caliper mount backwards. Definitely feel like cutting the tube to length is the only real solution here, regardless of where you cut the length (housing end or middle of the tube).

I have a mega ultra jones to set up a swifty 3.73 traclok/disc 8.8 to replace the 2.76/open/drum fail-7.25 in my Dart but while there's been a lot of talk about how to get around the emergency brake cable issue, I haven't seen any pics of solutions yet, and most of the conversions are still in the on-jackstands-lookin-neat stage versus the I took it to the grocery store today stage.

Anybody have pictures/parts lists of their e-brake cables? That's really the only thing keeping me from looting the hell out of the ferd truck place around the corner for their sweet posi guts.