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Old 01-09-2013, 01:34 PM
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As the title saids: i need some help identifying the rear axle that came with my new 1969 Mach 1 project car. The front puzzles me, it's not something i'm familiar with. It doesn't look like a 8"to me from the front, but it does from the back. Before you ask, i looked for the tag, but unfortunately, that isn't there anymore. Also i know there aint no castingnumbers on the rearaxle itself.

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Old 01-09-2013, 02:52 PM
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that is a 8 inch carrier section.

Here's a link to a site with more info:
http://www.kevinstang.com/Ninecase.htm

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Old 01-09-2013, 04:54 PM
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Thx, never knew the 8" front part looked like that. I assumed all of them had horizontal and vertical bars.

I quess i'll have to disassemble the axle to figure out what axle it is exactly. Will get there later this year, need to do some welding to the body first.
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That looks like an 8" axle from a pre-1967 vehicle, probably Mustang. The cross-hatched design appeared in 1967 and used the axle housing drain but went to the pumpkin drain in 1968 or maybe really late 1967.
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