Rear axle set up

[silver7]

I agree with tomtuna1978. My time is very valuable to me. I just did the same thing and I would say I had probably 5 hours in it and heres why.

1. Cutting the old brackets off without cutting the attached axle housing is impossible. In addition to grinding down the pieces still atched to the houding after cutting the big pieces off you have to fill in the cut housing and grind them down which is extremely time consuming. Not to mention those flap disk sanding wheels run about $8 a piece.
2. Now you have to weld the new brackets on. This is harder than what someone might think. The trick is to put them back on at the same distance from the end as the old one as well as ensure the pinion angle is the same agle. To do this you'll need to invest in a magnetic angle finder if you don't have one already. If you don't get you angle right you will be chasing drive line alignments issues down the road.

I have pics of all this on my build page if interested. Good luck.

Shawn