[zildjian4life218]

Originally Posted by prostreet6t9

You can get away with the stock joints if you leave the juice off. IMO... Don't skimp now that your almost ready to get it on the road. You can come out money ahead if you build it GOOD now compared to breaking a Driveshaft and having to replace a Trans case or who knows what.

I guess you could search the bone yards and see if you can find the right length to get it going.

Haha I can wait..... That way I don't break something else like you said..... when you say 3" do you mean steel? I would think alum would be more expensive then 200. Im gonna call tomorrow and order it. I called fleetpride and they said 300-325. Ill just ask for 1330 joints with 3" tubing.

[prostreet6t9]

Originally Posted by zildjian4life218

Haha I can wait..... That way I don't break something else like you said..... when you say 3" do you mean steel? I would think alum would be more expensive then 200. Im gonna call tomorrow and order it. I called fleetpride and they said 300-325. Ill just ask for 1330 joints with 3" tubing.

Yes Steel 3" X .083.

[zildjian4life218]

Cool thx. What kind of issues do you think I will have with the offset and the u joints? I'm already looking into getting another housing and an alignment jig to make another rearend.

[zildjian4life218]

Does anyone know the spicer part number for a 1330 u joint to a ford explorer flange... im trying to find it online and having a hard time... maybe im not looking in the right spot. It appears that ford used different size differential flanges. I measured across the bolt holts and it was just about at 4"... idk if this is the small or large one... I found this.. http://72.236.255.133/p374_1330_seri...ge_bolt_p.html but it says 3"... not sure... help someone lol! Thanks again!

[S10xGN]

Originally Posted by zildjian4life218

Does anyone know the spicer part number for a 1330 u joint to a ford explorer flange... im trying to find it online and having a hard time... maybe im not looking in the right spot. It appears that ford used different size differential flanges. I measured across the bolt holts and it was just about at 4"... idk if this is the small or large one... I found this.. http://72.236.255.133/p374_1330_seri...ge_bolt_p.html but it says 3"... not sure... help someone lol! Thanks again!

Looks like what's on the 8.8" Ranger axle in my S-10. Best thing would be to get your "bolt circle diameter" dimension and call them, since they neglected to put this dimension in the ad. Buy the bolts too, if you don't have them. they're 12 point grade 8 bolts that get torqued to 70 ft-lbs.

Russ

[zildjian4life218]

Originally Posted by S10xGN

Looks like what's on the 8.8" Ranger axle in my S-10. Best thing would be to get your "bolt circle diameter" dimension and call them, since they neglected to put this dimension in the ad. Buy the bolts too, if you don't have them. they're 12 point grade 8 bolts that get torqued to 70 ft-lbs.

Russ

I measured two bolt holes directly across from each other( 9 o clock position and 3 o clock position)... it was just about four inches... I didn't measure from the middle of the bolt holes just the inside edge. And thanks for the suggestion on getting the bolts had the torque spec.

[ericnova72]

Originally Posted by zildjian4life218

I measured two bolt holes directly across from each other( 9 o clock position and 3 o clock position)... it was just about four inches... I didn't measure from the middle of the bolt holes just the inside edge. And thanks for the suggestion on getting the bolts had the torque spec.

Measure from INside edge of one hole to OUTside edge of the other. It will give you the same reading as measuring center-to-center

There is also Denny's Driveshaft, I've used them before, good parts, and in your area of the country

[zildjian4life218]

Originally Posted by ericnova72

Measure from INside edge of one hole to OUTside edge of the other. It will give you the same reading as measuring center-to-center

There is also Denny's Driveshaft, I've used them before, good parts, and in your area of the country

Lol wow. I didn't even think of measuring.it that way. Ill do that when I get home from work. I already called Denny's and he didn't want to touch the job due to the offset in the rearend....

[prostreet6t9]

Spicer# 2-2-949

[zildjian4life218]

Originally Posted by prostreet6t9

Spicer# 2-2-949

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!

Idk if it still matters or not but the measurement from (6 o clock to 9 o clock) is 3" and (6 o clock to 12 o clock) is 4.25" and this is from the inside of one edge to the outside of the other....... is this what i need?................or do i need 2-2-1399?

http://www2.dana.com/pdf/J300-P2.pdf

[prostreet6t9]

[QUOTE=zildjian4life218]THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!

Idk if it still matters or not but the measurement from (6 o clock to 9 o clock) is 3" and (6 o clock to 12 o clock) is 4.25" and this is from the inside of one edge to the outside of the other....... is this what i need?................or do i need 2-2-1399?

Looks like your correct. You can measure your Pilot Dia to double check.

[zildjian4life218]

From what I have gathered online Ford used two different size flanges for the 8.8 rear end. The referred to them as the small and big flange. I'm guessing tthesmall has the 3.5" bolt circle diameter and uses that 2-2-949 and the big flange uses the 4.25" bolt circle diameter and uses 2-2-1399. Can anyone verify this for me?