Let's talk 9" rears
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That really looks nice Jason!
Thanks guys. Those are the loaded backing plates/drums that John's sells. I bought their prebent line kit too. The lines needed some modifications to fit but worked out well. I had John's powdercoat the housing and backing plates for me too which turned out great. It's really a nice setup for the money
This might be a stupid question but, since your have stock width,is your spacing still favor closer to body on driver's side or not??? If not how did you correct that with a adjustable pan hard bar?? Differential look's great!!!
The differential is more biased towards the drivers side yes. The drivers side axle is quite a bit shorter. John's can build the rearend to stock width or shorter if you want too. They do ask that when ordering.
So the pinion is or is not centered .......?
I don't have mine in the car yet but others have said the pinion is centered with the tunnel
I bet you can't wait to put it in Jason!!
Yea I can't wait. Waiting on some lower control arms I ordered for it. Then it gets installed. However, I won't have a driveshaft for it for awhile. Might not be till spring now
Yep adjustable uppers. Ordered from Spohn. Very nice pieces!
It's getting colder here now so depending on when the driveshaft comes etc it may or may not be on the road before the snow flys. I went with 4.30 gears
Well, it's in. But not without a fight. The upper trailing arm brackets on the housing are a bit narrow which don't allow the arm to slide down and bolt in. Had to clearance the brackets and test fit everything about 20 times. But overall it looks great. I've gotta get it centered now with a panhard adjustment and then start working on the pinion angle. I went with Spohn adjustable upper trailing arms and UMI lower control arms. Both extremely nice pieces!!!
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I'll get better pics of the upper and lower arms. Can't seem them in the photo. Going to need to get a different pan hard rod as the one I have is a real bitch to try and make any adjustments with the single threaded end. Gotta figure out how to attach the parking break cable/spacer thing John's provides and work on my brake lines. Getting closer
The panhard I got for my car from Global West had a bracket to weld on the frame and lower the mount to make it parallel with the ground.. It might be something to look into if you decide to get a different one...
When I ran the stock rear, my stock car buddy convinced me to level my track bar. I don't remember why. I used something like this that was adjustable.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/AFCO-20224K-1-J-Bar-Panhard-Bar-5-1-2-Inch-Bend-/261874342751
http://www.ebay.com/itm/AFCO-20224K-1-J-Bar-Panhard-Bar-5-1-2-Inch-Bend-/261874342751
I ordered the Spohn double adjustable panhard bar yesterday for the car. Really impressed with the quality of their parts. The adjustable uppers are really nice!
http://www.spohn.net/blog/2012/09/2...-1959-1964-chevrolet-impala-biscayne-bel-air/
http://www.spohn.net/blog/2012/09/2...-1959-1964-chevrolet-impala-biscayne-bel-air/