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10-07-2004 09:47 PM #1
narrowing a rear end
I got tired of hearing "hey I know a guy who does rear ends" only to find out he only does them on leap years in a blue moon cycle. No active phones, no address...all that stuff.
I have my own TIG welder so I just went and bought a Mittler kit. I can do any common rear end now. Since I'll probably do more in the future the second one will make it a wash. The tool is easy to use if you know how to use a tape measure and can cut a straight tube. I have a small power saw so it was easy to hack off the tubes. You can buy new ends for about $65 pluss shipping but why not try to use the old ones unless the bearing is spunn.
The really nice thing is that I was able to install the line up bar and weld on all of the 4 link stuff without distorting the housing.
Once I had everything welded back together I called Moser to find out about resplined axels. I measured mine and wrote down what I wanted and sent the axels out. It took abouta week round tripp and it was done.
By the time you clean up a housing and pack it up for shipping and pay for shipping costs you are money ahead to try to find soneone at home to do it. Or simply buy one from Moser complete with axeles. Shipping cost me about $25 each way for the axeles. Then another $50 to press on the bearings. Tip here is get good bearings not cheap chineese made crap. A 20 ton press couldn't even come close to installing the cheap stuff. ...so I learned the hard way..don't we all.
In the end I have about what it would have cost to just buy a housing and axels from Moser but I now can do it my way. When I want.41 Willys 350 sbc 6-71 blower t350, 9in, 4 link
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