As for any of the stock crap holding up, I stand by my statement. I bet you guys don't have one single Ford part in any of your 9 inchers do ya?
Not in the Buick.....but I ran a factory Ford housing AND a factory Ford Nodular center section in my GTX when it was going 5.20s at 3300lbs. That same housing and center are now under my 63 Dodge
Monte
Yeah, sorry but I don't buy it. Stock ford 9" stuff doesn't hold up, I know from personal experience. Lots of personal experience. I have a 9" now that has survived so far in a backbraced street car, nothing to do with ford WHATSOEVER as far as the pumpkin goes.... not one thing.
I don't give a damn what you BUY. Its my car, I know what parts are in it and I have absolutely NO reason to lie about it. And like I said, it was a factory NODULAR iron housing and if you don't know what that is, you don't know anything about Ford rears. The housing was/is a factory HD housing with a back brace.
Your own personal troubles with 9" rears are well documented on the board. I don't know exactly what you were doing wrong, but you broke more stuff in a short span of time than I ever have in 40 years of using these rears.
Monte
I don't know what I was doing wrong either. I ran two nodular centers, two war cases, I tried different brand gears, had different TALENTED guys set the rear ends up. The guy who bought the car off me also tossed in a brand new center section. He blew the pumpkin in less than a year, he even had the entire housing changed and we checked it a few times to see if the housing was the trouble. Never had more problems with anything in any car than I had with that 9" rear. I have a 9" rear in the Nova I'm driving now, nothing whatsoever to do with Ford in the center section whatsoever, it is so overkill for the car it isn't funny. It's been on the road for a couple months.... lasted so far!!
