"Rear Ended!"

Ok, well...it's been quite sometime since the last post...Sorry, just been busy with life & stuff.

Anywho, I finally got the differential work done for the most part (minus the actual Strange Engineering Axles). Here you can see the sorry state of the original rearend pulled from a 1978 Ford F150 2wd. Overall a decent example of a good strong 9" punkin :)

We took the 54" behometh, cleaned it up by removing all of the shock mount and leaf spring mounting pads, removed the drop out gearing, removed the planetary system for minimum slip, installed a Strange 31 spline spool so both rear paws can dig, added new bearings, races etc. had the tubes shortened by Dean Averett of DA Racing in Taylorsville, Utah. (Awesome job Dean...Thx buddy!

To get the spool to install onto the ring gear I had to modify new 7/16 x 20 bolts. I shortened them to accomidate the thinner flange of the new spool. The end result worked great. I got it together, set the backlash to .012", checked the gear pattern using a little persian blue gear paint and put the rest of it together. I think so far...it looks pretty good.