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Dwight,

Thank You. I am completely enjoying the process.

And about the 12 bolt rear. I have built a number of cars with a 12 bolts and received good service from all. However, I never ran anything lower than a 5.13 ratio. The last fast bracket car I built ran 6.10's 1/8th mile at 3100 pounds [about 9.55 in the 1/4]

It had hundreds of runs on the 5.13 gear and still looked like new.

I hope with the 327 with powerglide running low 10's at 3100 pounds , well, track time will tell.

I might be wise to consider having the gears treated and polished. Do you have any suggestions?

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The best improvement I saw was having the gears heat treated at Tom's Differentials. That more than doubled the pinion life. Those small 6 tooth pinions will crack at the base of impact. Tom's heat treating allowed the teeth to bend before coming to pieces. Gear life was about 100 runs after heat treating. 3550 lbs with a stick.


Another big improvement I found was using a solid pinion spacer over a compression sleeve.


I'm sure the REM polishing, cryo treatment and some of the coatings available now would be beneficial.

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Dwight, Thank You. I will follow up and 10-4 on solid crush sleeve

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Not able to see pictures. What am I doing wrong. Great thread!!

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Give us some info on your operating system and web browser (including the version number).

EDIT: I just went back a page and I can't see them either. That means it's a server issue. I had the entire site vanish the other day.

Dale

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Ken knows about the photo viewing problem and is working on it.

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It's working now. Thanks!!

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Saturday work time allowed working on a few small items. The small items are important and over the weeks add up to good progress.

I like small, simple details. They give me a smile and are part of my hot rodding enjoyment.

Note:

*master cut off mounted through bed wall
*switch body is inside the bed, control arm in taillight housing area
*"push off" handle through the taillight lens
*battery and fuel cell mounted

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Nice work Larry, keep it up!
Good idea and execution on the master cutoff, and the cable to the cab. Cant count the number of times over the years I have got in the car, got back out of the car to turn switch on, got back in the car cussing... LOL.
I have wanted an S-10 for years... this is just making me drool again.

Ken

Stock 412

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Another perspective that helps is to provide support for the housing. You already have braced the housing externally and that is good, and you have used steel bearing caps which helps (1/2" bolts?). The aluminum cover/girdle products or something similar will help keep the big open housing from distorting. I modified a stock cover with 1/8" steel gridwork inside and a 1/4" steel mounting flange reinforcement to be a rigid brace for the housing opening. I ran it on the E/S & A/S Camaro and it seems to help. I know the gold stamped aluminum Moroso cover (remember them?) shortened gear life on the 283s.