SecondChance

I've picked up a ford 9 inch for a swap into my truck(Pancho). It's 67.5 inches wms to wms so it should be a good fit I've been looking at different axle,spool,gear and brake options. Has anyone swapped a 9 inch into their truck that could give me some tips. I plan to weld on a back brace soon also if that matters and will be doing an axle flip in the process since I need to weld on new perches anyway.

TrendSetter

i built one from scratch for my s10. most of my parts i bought from quick performance.
other than that...not sure what kind of advice youre seeking? use good parts?

07Softail

What kind of HP numbers are you putting out?

RT

SecondChance

Haha prolly 200 right now if I'm lucky. It's got the little LR4 for now I can't decide what I really want to do with it yet so I don't have a hp goal in mind. They spider gears always seem to break on all the 10 bolts I've had which then cause a **** show inside the diff. I have access to an iorn head 6.0 for fairly cheap which I would get new heads and intake for it or Ive thought about seeing how far I can push this 4.8. Maybe set it up to rev high and spray it. It's just a little shop truck I've got other vehicles I just traded for this thing and it's growing on me

haulin-c10

Was you able to get the 9 inch put in? I'm wondering cause I picked one up.

SecondChance

No it was the axles that killed the deal for me once I started to look at pricing 6 lug axles they were like 300$ a piece. Then I would need a disk brake swap it new gears I ended up just buying a spare axle with 4.10 gears and posi. So now I've got 2 spare shafts. With the power levels I'll ever make with the truck and tire size I should be fine. In the end the actual 9 inch was the cheapest part of the whole swap. I may truss the axle if I bend a housing or something