8.8 Question about gears & interchangability

[Lonewolf3165]

I need to hear from some of the guys who are differential specialists on here. I have aset of 3.73:1 gears for a Ford 8.8 rear that were to go into a Mustang project I had but sold the car. I got the gears from a friend of mine at a Ford dealer & he said the were for a late model F-150 but that all the 8.8 rears used the same ring & pinion so they would work.

My question here is is that in fact true? Can you use the ring & pinion in any 8.8, or what are the limitations to interchangeability? I want to sell off some of the Ford stuff I have lying around, but don't want to mislead anybody who buys them.

Thanks for your help.

 

[txstang84]

Yes-thats one of the great things about the 8.8...all of them use the same gears...doesn't matter if it came out of a Mustang, Crown Vic, F series...whatever

edit: Even the IRS T-birds and 99-04 Cobras used the same gears in their pumpkins...the diffs can be interchanged similarly...

 

[Woods74]

It's Ford man, if there is one manufactuer that lives under the 'use one thing in as many as possible' philosophy, its them. They use interchangeability to the nth degree.

Yeah, a 8.8 is a 8.8 is a 8.8. or 26.4 if your counting...