Is an 8 1/4", 2.45:1 diff housing exclusive?
I wonder how an 8.25 stacks up against a 10 bolt gm axle?
Which one? Good grief, thought I would look and there are a bunch of "10 bolt" axles for GM's.
Looks like the 7.5" and 8.2" ring gear 10 Bolt use a smaller pinion diameter of 1.4375".
The 8.5" and 8.6" ring gear 10 bolts use a 1.625" pinion, same as the 8.25 Mopar and the GM 12 bolt.
Looks like the 10 bolt axles have more splines at 28 or 30 versus 27 or 29 for the Mopar.
No idea on the tube wall thickness for the Mopar but one article mentioned that the GM 10 Bolt uses .3125 axle tube wall thickness and that it could be an issue.
Overall, I would guess the Mopar 8.25" axle stacks up pretty good to the 8.5" 10 Bolt. But just a guess.
