- Location
- Birmingham, AL
Okay, I am pretty green to building axles and I ask for help with what all I need and good brands to buy. I only want to do this once and want to use good parts. Please feel free to add whatever you want that might help me out. My plan is to order everything, take it to a friends house who builds axles on the side and we are gonna put everything together from scratch. Then I'll get perches and shock mounts welded on it.
And for the record I'll be running this with my hp d30 for awhile till more funds come. I plan to run 35s till I get a new front axle and beef up the unibody more.
Anyways so far this is my list:
1. Currie extra HD housing 62-64 wms to wms. I couldn't find a housing this width and I guess it does not matter since this is stronger and with 35 spline shafts I can't use stock spare axles anyway. I thought about a junkyard housing and cut it down, but it will end up either a headache or more $$$.
2. Strange Nodular 3rd member in 3.25 size. I see a $199.99 Strange housing on ebay, but it looks alot different than the Strange on Curries website, so I am not sure if its as strong or what. Here it is:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/9-Fo...33731QQitemZ8052360795QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWDVW
While Curries Strange housings look like this (notice the difference in the webbing):
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/FORD...33731QQitemZ7922031277QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWDVW
3. 35 spline alloy shafts. I am not sure what brand I am gonna go with (Opinions?)
4. Detroit locker. I sure hope they make detroits for 35 spline 9", if not anyone have suggestions? I am not running a spool or wleding spyders...this is a DD.
5. 4.86s. I am told these are fine to run with 4.88s up front. Gonna go Superior or the like with master install, etc.
6. disc brakes. I see tons of kits from $300 - ALOT, anyone have ideas? (I've read a few articles on mix and matching brakes) But I am looking to buy a new kit.
Now this is all the big stuff (I think?), but thats where I get lost. What about all the bearings, seals, pinion support, etc do I need? Is there a good kit out there that contains alot of this stuff? Like a master master install kit, lol. Please just suggest what all I need to finish the axle. I found this place on ebay that has alot of 9" parts and was wondering if they carry anything worthwhile for me?: http://stores.ebay.com/Quick-Performance-Racing
Thanks for any help.
Also I've been trying to join and for some reason the join page has nothing but red Xs where you have to click and the page won't show up. Ideas?
And for the record I'll be running this with my hp d30 for awhile till more funds come. I plan to run 35s till I get a new front axle and beef up the unibody more.
Anyways so far this is my list:
1. Currie extra HD housing 62-64 wms to wms. I couldn't find a housing this width and I guess it does not matter since this is stronger and with 35 spline shafts I can't use stock spare axles anyway. I thought about a junkyard housing and cut it down, but it will end up either a headache or more $$$.
2. Strange Nodular 3rd member in 3.25 size. I see a $199.99 Strange housing on ebay, but it looks alot different than the Strange on Curries website, so I am not sure if its as strong or what. Here it is:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/9-Fo...33731QQitemZ8052360795QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWDVW
While Curries Strange housings look like this (notice the difference in the webbing):
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/FORD...33731QQitemZ7922031277QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWDVW
3. 35 spline alloy shafts. I am not sure what brand I am gonna go with (Opinions?)
4. Detroit locker. I sure hope they make detroits for 35 spline 9", if not anyone have suggestions? I am not running a spool or wleding spyders...this is a DD.
5. 4.86s. I am told these are fine to run with 4.88s up front. Gonna go Superior or the like with master install, etc.
6. disc brakes. I see tons of kits from $300 - ALOT, anyone have ideas? (I've read a few articles on mix and matching brakes) But I am looking to buy a new kit.
Now this is all the big stuff (I think?), but thats where I get lost. What about all the bearings, seals, pinion support, etc do I need? Is there a good kit out there that contains alot of this stuff? Like a master master install kit, lol. Please just suggest what all I need to finish the axle. I found this place on ebay that has alot of 9" parts and was wondering if they carry anything worthwhile for me?: http://stores.ebay.com/Quick-Performance-Racing
Thanks for any help.
Also I've been trying to join and for some reason the join page has nothing but red Xs where you have to click and the page won't show up. Ideas?
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