9 Inch On Truck Tech

[ZephyrEFI]

It's always nice to see them working on a Ford on this show. Their '74 F100 is sweet.

It showed them adding gears and a locker to its 9-inch this week. I had never actually seen it done, setting up a 9-inch. That was ridiculously easy!! It made me angry how much f***ing trouble the 8.8 is to set up!! WHY? WHY WOULD YOU GO BACKWARDS?! "Hey, let's put in a rear end that's not as strong, and a whole lot more trouble to work on. Yeah, that sounds good."

rant off

[cb650]

seen that one too. Does look easy. LOL
I remember many moons ago watching my uncle doing it also.

[brianj]

Heavy, heavy bi@#h. Plus, everything is easy on t.v. Hell, i watched them 5 lug a fox in twenty minutes, including a cobra booster.

[erratic50]

Yep..... horribly misguided and unnecessary. Teach us all how to be cool parts swappers that don't know anything about what we took off or what we put on or why!

I will refrain from going too deep into commentary about cobra boosters and cobra MC vs stock booster and M1858. Avoiding before I rant about it.....

[yamahaford540]

Easier/cheaper to manufacture the 8.8 over a 9

[ZephyrEFI]

Well, setting up an 8.8 SUCKS. They could have kept SOME things about the 9 inch, instead of directly ripping off how Chevy does it with the stupid freakin' shims and stuff.

[yamahaford540]

9" is a copy of a eaton HO axle... Which were in GM trucks first.

[2nd chance cobra]

I must have gotten lucky, I swapped gears and bearings on my 8.8 and used all the shims that came out in the same positions.