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Title: how do you tell what rear end you have?
Post by: pintoossssssss on December 31, 2006, 01:55:20 PM

hey every body I am trying to figure out what rear end I have. how do you tell? can you tell by the vin or what?

Title: Re: how do you tell what rear end you have?
Post by: douglasskemp on January 01, 2007, 12:10:23 AM

To figure out what rearend you have, the 6.75 rear has bolts from the rear that attach the rear cover, and an 8" has bolts from the front that hold on the center section.

As far as gear ratio goes, the 100% accurate way is to count the teeth on the ring and pinion gears and divide the number of teeth on the ring by the number of teeth on the pinion. The easy way to do it without removing the cover is to jack up the car, put a chalk mark on the driveshaft (lengthwise) where it'll be easy to see for you to count, put the trans in neutral, and rotate a tire while counting the number of rotations the driveshaft makes. If it goes around 3 times for one rotation of the tire, it has 3.00 gears; 3 and a quarter turns, 3.25 gears; 3 and a half turns, 3.40 gears; or, like my 8" has, 3 and 3/4 turns, 3.73 gears.

--Doug

Title: Re: how do you tell what rear end you have?
Post by: pintoossssssss on January 02, 2007, 12:05:43 AM

Thanks Doug I will look tomarow. I just love that you guys are so willing to help others in the pursute of pinto greatness. One of these days I am giong to get the pictures developed and post them. Once again thanks Joe

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