Originally Posted by Hotrod Lincoln
Different ring/pinion gear tooth counts are involved:

37/9 tooth gearset = 4.1111111

41/10 tooth gears = 4.1000

I believe the Dana rear axles used a 41/10 gearset. The Eaton gears are 37/9.

Jerry

Jerry that makes perfect sense. My problem was with the quote from Denny, which has now been retracted, saying that there "never" was an Eaton HO 52 with a 4.11 gear set. I believe I have linked documentation above that clearly shows a cross section of an Eaton HO 52 (5200 lb axle) with available ratios of 4.11 and 4.57 in the 1966 info packet.


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