Ok so I decided to hold of on upgrading my brakes until summer. In the mean time I want to gather up everything to get gears installed as soon as winter is over so I can actually drive the car to the shop. I have some questions however. First of all, what gear weight of RP gear lube do I need? How much? Do I still need friction modifier as well? I see buyfordracing has the gears for 150 bucks (4.10) so I am guessing that;s most likely the cheapest place to get them? Also I am confused by all of these rebuild/install/bearing kits and crap. they range from like 30 bucks to over $130. What do I need exactly? My car only has around 50k on it and has never been down the drag strip or worn slicks. I don't want to spend a bunch of money on unused parts. I don't plan to have them rebuild the diff either as I currently have found no issues with it at all. I know most people will say I need the bearing kit but there is usually a couple different kits that include bearing but may or may not include other stuff. Looks like the install should only cost me around 300-400 bucks here.

 

http://www.americanmuscle.com/rearendrebuild.html is this the kit I need?

 

That's the kit I bought. I also bought new axle bearings from Ford while I was at it. The RP fluid has the modifier in it already.

 

Looks like I will get raped up here on labor. They want 575 bucks to do the swap with me supplying all my own parts. That's coming up close to a grand to do gears.

 

WTF...that's insane.

 

Glad I am not the only one who thinks so. I will for sure be checking around. Everybody on here probably thinks I bitch alot about labor rates. But, there is a perfect example of how expensive **** is in Alaska. And not to mention I don't get the free shipping from anywhere. Will most likely coast me 60 bucks just to ship the gears

 

Just got another quote of 875 bucks and that's again with me providing every part and fluid. Ugh ****ing Alaska