Axle ID - 02/04/09 03:41 PM
Pop's new (to him) B-Ville car just got here (came up on a barge). I am trying to identify what rear axle it has with no luck as yet on Google, Yahoo, here or anywhere else. The previous owner claims it is a 1969 'Chrysler midsize' rear axle. It came with a spare gear set 3.90 "43-11". There are 8 bolts in roughly a 5 1/8" cicle, they appear to be 3/8" NF LH thread. The ring and pinion both have a logo stamped in them, looks like a badge with a capitol G in it (I tried Google and Yahoo image searches with no luck). The PN on the ring gear reads 2070560 and the PN on the pinion is 3500743. Both claim U.S.A. manufacture and have a suffix of A8, and the ring does have 43 teeth and the pinion has 11.
In paint on the end of the pinion (facing the inside of the diff) are the numbers 2.066 and 269.
I orriginally thought this was (by the description from the previous owner) an 8 1/4. But now I think it might be the 7 something (1/2"?) rear. We are trying to figure out what we have so we can run down sources of parts as we will probably need some.
Any help would be appreciated.
I would have included the lug pattern, axle length etc, but those have been obviously modified (to look at them). I forget how many bolts the cover has (rear loading diff), but I'll see in the morning (if I can get to it, it's not out of the trailer, yet).
Just to be clear this is not a 'drop out' type diff, the gears go in through the back with a tin cover for the hole they pass through.
In paint on the end of the pinion (facing the inside of the diff) are the numbers 2.066 and 269.
I orriginally thought this was (by the description from the previous owner) an 8 1/4. But now I think it might be the 7 something (1/2"?) rear. We are trying to figure out what we have so we can run down sources of parts as we will probably need some.
Any help would be appreciated.
I would have included the lug pattern, axle length etc, but those have been obviously modified (to look at them). I forget how many bolts the cover has (rear loading diff), but I'll see in the morning (if I can get to it, it's not out of the trailer, yet).
Just to be clear this is not a 'drop out' type diff, the gears go in through the back with a tin cover for the hole they pass through.