Thread: Ford 9" sizing question

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Here is this what you were looking for. Kurt
Click on the site below.
http://www.carnut.com/specs/rear.html
My bad thats the same thing you got up there.
Sorry.

No matter what you buy or use you will have offset due to the nature of the beast, also as this is actually built into most rear axles (pinion offset) for a reason, to make the universals do their job, that is to make them rotate in their particular cups, with out this they would be shot with in a hundred miles, so if you think you are doing yourself a favor by lining up your driveshaft both vertically and horizontally you are actually making a bigger mistake, only on true race cars (quarter mile) can get away with this.

Originally Posted by 406Rich

No matter what you buy or use you will have offset due to the nature of the beast,

Not necessarily, check photos in my post above.

Take it on a three hundred mile road tour and report back.

If lining up the drive shaft is hard on u-joints how do all the no-offset rear end u-joints hold up? Just put the pinion angle in the joint vertically instead of horizontally. The u-joint needle bearings don't care which way they are pitched, as long as they move enough to avoid creating flat spots.

How many no offset uni`s have you seen in the last 50 years or so....

My son's 95 camaro has a ford 9' in it. We ordered it with the drive shaft straight because there is no room in a camaro tunnel for anything but. It has thousands of track & street miles on it [mostly street miles] and the u-joints are fine. As I said all the u-joint needle bearings need is a little pitch to keep them rotating, they don't care if it is is from a vertical or horizontal angle.