Re: 8 3/4 back brace
[Re: 8urvette]
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08/30/11 01:13 PM
08/30/11 01:13 PM
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Slingshot383
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It's just a threaded spud, you can use a long allen screw or cap bolt, use a jam nut to lock it down just past finger tight. It should hit the center of the caps, prevents them from moving rearward and getting broken or spit out.
1994 Undercover Chassis 125" altered
stack injected big block, soon blown and injected
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Re: 8 3/4 back brace
[Re: Slingshot383]
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08/30/11 03:09 PM
08/30/11 03:09 PM
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Posts: 52,972 Romeo MI
MR_P_BODY
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It's just a threaded spud, you can use a long allen screw or cap bolt, use a jam nut to lock it down just past finger tight. It should hit the center of the caps, prevents them from moving rearward and getting broken or spit out.
Its simple to make... I lay it on the back with the same gap at each end then set my dividers to the gap then scribe the tubing keep your dividers square to the axle housing ..... DONT WELD IT ALL AT ONCE weld 1" sections and jump around so you dont bow the axle tubes
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Re: 8 3/4 back brace
[Re: 8urvette]
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02/23/15 02:04 AM
02/23/15 02:04 AM
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TRENDZ
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here's a pic of mine. was in a trans brake turbo car. 3600 lbs. started shearing pinion gear stems when the car was going hi 9s. Never had failures except for shearing pinion gears.
"use it 'till it breaks, replace as needed"
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Re: 8 3/4 back brace
[Re: 8urvette]
#1065274
02/26/15 01:30 AM
02/26/15 01:30 AM
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jcc
If you can't dazzle em with diamonds..
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If you can't dazzle em with diamonds..
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does anybody have pics of a well made home made brace? I have access to just about everything i could ever need to do this. I am a ok welder at best, but my friend owns a welding fabrication business. He offered me the use of his shop, equipment and expertise... so i figured for the cost of the steel I could make my own. And be well ahead of a stock housing. If any pics are out there i would live to see them!
thank for all the input guys.
A back brace IMO mainly pevents bending of the Housing under extreme acceleration, good traction and High HP applications, and some twisting of same. Does little to help the R&P tooth interface, also IMo the weakest point after the already mentioned Driver side cap.
Not worth it for OP IMO, and fpllow my suggestion, not what I do.
See pic #43 https://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/show...part=1&vc=1
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