Taking the 8.25 A body rear end out and adding a Limited Slip carrier section to go in my Dart.
The car in the pic is getting an 8.75 Sure Grip
My right arm is jacked up from doing all new flooring in the house, so I am using mostly my left arm for all this. (impact damage to my elbow from taking up carpet tack strips)
The rusty U bolts & interference nuts were fun left handed.:D
Of course doing it by myself in gravel sucks.
Anyway, I have a choice between 3.21 and 3.55 gears, and I think I'll go with the 3.21 since I won't have to mess with the pinion for those because that is what is in the 8.25 currently.
Just need to swap over the Sure Grip carrier and from a mid 90's truck 70's A body housing that has the 3.21 gears .
I have 2.73's in my car right now and with the 42RH it's a high geared SOB.
The 3.55's will still be available if I change my mind later, but I don't want to go too far right off the bat because I do a lot of hiway driving.
I ran into one issue I didn't expect.
The carrier bearings out of the 70's housing have a larger OD, so I had to order the smaller bearings for the later housing (up to the mid 90's from a dodge truck)
The ID of the bearings is the same, as are the axles spline count from the older housing and axles to the newer carrier.
It is what it is, and I'm just happy that my car isn't down while this is being swapped around.
Got this one out and apart last night.
What should have been a 2 hour ordeal took me more like 4 because of the screwed up arm.:rolleyes:
Got the new Timken bearings on order from Denny's Driveshaft, because everything I could seem to get locally was some (probably China brand) or a generic like most of the parts stores sell.
I'll wait for the good ones.
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