Ty 01.

 

thanks 01. I would be doing the work myself as no one touches my car but me. I would never trust another mechanic with my car as we all know they don't take care of our cars the way we do.

 

So I figured while I was doing a gear swap I'd freshen up a little bit. I've always hated the fact that I spray painted the rear end in this car. Money was tight when I ordered it so saving money was important, now I can go back and undue that mistake. So ordered up some Richmond 4.10s. Gonna hold onto the Motive 3.73s for now, they may end up going back in one day.



Got it pulled and hung up for full disassembly.



And off to the powder coat shop!



Going more low key this go round, went with gloss black.



And that little custom touch that makes it your own and unique.



All that hard work, lets relax by the BBQ grill with some LSX buddies.

 

Got this thing back and it was an oily sandy mess inside. So I spent considerable time cleaning the inside. Now that it's clean it's ready to be reassembled.



Stopped at home depot and got some angle iron and some all thread. After all the rear ends ive built I'm finally building myself a case spreader.



The case has one 3/4 and one 1/2 hole for the case spreader to attach to, so I found some scraps that fit those dimensions. I did have to revise this design as it was blocking the bearing caps from going in. No big deal, we are learning.



Here it is set in place. You turn the buckles and the case spreads. Easy as pie.



And this is why you need a case spreader. I pulled this out during disassembly. No doubt it got bent during final carrier preloading last time when I swapped the spool in.



May not have this out again for a while so I decided to take some weights. This is the empty housing weight.



This is fully dressed weight. It has a spool, no brakes, aluminum rear cover.



I was an idiot to not powder coat this thing sooner. It looks very pimp now. Will reinstall this weekend. Stay tuned.

 

Looks awesome. Honestly been thinking on getting a 12 bolt and scrapping the custom 8.5 10 bolt I have that I was going to put in the car. Not entirely sure yet. I like making my own custom stuff.

 

So far ive been happy with this one, though sometimes I wish I woulda went 9 inch just for simplicity of gear swaps.