Reworking an 8 1/4 and can't find ?

swies said
Nope. It was a drum rear.
I did the bolt - socket trick to adjust my side load. Only thing to be careful of...USE AN EXTENSION WITH THE LOCKING MECHANISM ON THE END.
Suck to lose the socket in the tube..
Ask me how I know...
The rear housings were nearly identical. Just had to use bearing to fit the Dakota since the OD is the same but the ID is different.
I read lots of things / posts / blogs about having to grind some here or there etc. None of that happened. Went in smooth.
Adjust load, Set pinion depth.. (Special thanks to 69 Mope there. No measuring required, just read the numbers and do some math) Then Torque the pinion.
Done and Done.

I want to thank you for your input on this swies :color: I will be looking in on 69 Mope and his post's on this :glasses7:

From what I am seeing this 8 1/4 rear end is built and uses the same system as the 10'' Chebby rear end. Still learning and my friend said he can rebuild it but said I could do it at his shop with his super vision and tools :glasses7: I feel like this is a straight forward axle bearing and pinion bearing replacement and get some dial reading on the end play and pinion depth, looks like there has been no tech info anywhere, but I am still searching :glasses7: