FarmerMatt
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Right Jeff,
The axle was used in a rear engine moon buggy. This means that the tranny is running opposite what we have. Their rear drive line is our fronts... The way they make this work is they use standard rotation ford 9" centers & run them flipped upside down. Almost as a side effect, they also end up with a very high pinion. In order for me to run this housing I had to flip the 9" back right side up. The bolt pattern is not concentric. I welded up the holes in the housing & used a junk yard 9" as my guide to drill the new holes. I located the third member by building an alignment bar that slid snuggly through the carrier & also through the axle tubes. Flipping the 9" over meant that my inner axle shafts were now junk. My short side was now too short * the long side too long. I sent the long sides (the axle came with all spares) out to get cut down & resplined & I had to order new custom short sides.
I have a 3 ring roller bender with dies for square tube to make large radius bends. This was actually a piece of scrap I had lying around that just needed a little tweaking to fit. I liked the way it looked & I don't have the dies to do the same to round tube...
Matt
The axle was used in a rear engine moon buggy. This means that the tranny is running opposite what we have. Their rear drive line is our fronts... The way they make this work is they use standard rotation ford 9" centers & run them flipped upside down. Almost as a side effect, they also end up with a very high pinion. In order for me to run this housing I had to flip the 9" back right side up. The bolt pattern is not concentric. I welded up the holes in the housing & used a junk yard 9" as my guide to drill the new holes. I located the third member by building an alignment bar that slid snuggly through the carrier & also through the axle tubes. Flipping the 9" over meant that my inner axle shafts were now junk. My short side was now too short * the long side too long. I sent the long sides (the axle came with all spares) out to get cut down & resplined & I had to order new custom short sides.
I have a 3 ring roller bender with dies for square tube to make large radius bends. This was actually a piece of scrap I had lying around that just needed a little tweaking to fit. I liked the way it looked & I don't have the dies to do the same to round tube...
Matt
Was your axle a passenger side offset rear axle when used in the moon buggy and now a drivers side offset when used in your rigs front end? What direction did the engine sit in the rear engine moon buggy? What offset was the transfer case? Oh, I noticed that the engine cradle looks awfully similar to the roof cross bars used on your roof racks (at least on scrappys roof rack.) That would explain why you have a three ring roller bender on hand for square tube. 
