Ford rear end needs indentified

need a little help here guys i cant remember what year he said the rear end was from i thought it was a deal i got it for 150 bux

thanks
tom

 

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and if the pics dont help i think he said a ford truck wheel will fit the bolt pattern

 

Without some better shots of the spring hanger, or width measurements, it looks like anything from 37 to 48. With a homemade open drive shaft conversion.


alchemy

 

i believe its 51 to 52 inches

 

I thought some of the trucks had that conversion already on them. Heavy trucks???

 

As a newbie to Fords, is there a way to just look at the rear end and tell if it's designed for a Ford or not? I ask only because I'm looking for a shoebox project and (ya never know) it might not have a rear end.

-Taylor

 

everything is designed for a ford you just have to make it work haha

i guess ill have to go and get a few pics of the backing plates and spring perches

thanks tom

 

That's definetly a homemade open drive conversion, not a truck. The backing plates can be switched around from different years, so they aren't a good indicator of age. The spring hanger will tell more, and the witdh will tell most. But if you aren't restoring a car, the guts are all the same from those years anyway. The bearings, seals, and gears will all interchange.

If the backing plates have nuts on the outside down low they are 39-41 type, and if they have cotter pins on the inside down low they are 42-48 type. Call for different shoes and bushings between those two styles.


alchemy

 

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is there a way to just look at the rear end and tell if it's designed for a Ford or not?

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some people can identify stuff just by looking at it.

like ham or lamb or a sweet potato or yam

or even a shoebox Ford!

Paul