Thread: Please help is my 10 bolt strong enough

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Ok I have a 8.5 with Richmond gears, i will pull the axel tonight if i have 30 spline axels DO I KEEP RUNNING IT, keep in mind im broke, i will have to replace the drive line and i am putting 28" slicks on it. I will be hitting the rear end with 4800 stall.

I am pretty sure you cant buy a .456 gear for the smaller 8" ring gear, thus making it the larger one. I ran a 10 bolt for 10 years solid driving, and pulled literally thousands and thousands and yes thousands of hole shots with slicks at the strip and also all over town during the week. I never drove that car without giving it every thing it had and then some. That rear end was a good solid choice, better yet it was already in the car, like yours is. A 9" would be great, if you got the 1700 bucks laying around go for it. But if not use the one you got until, if and when it breaks.