I give up! Now we got 10 bolts in the cover and 10 bolts in the pumpkin and 10 bolts in the ring gear. I guess I should have heeded the old adage, “if it don’t stink, don’t stir it!”
We started out with two interpretations and now we’re up to three.
Funny, every time I go to the sites that specialize in rear ends, they always show the rear covers when they identify a rear end. After spending a few days looking over Drivetrain’s site a few weeks ago I thought I had it figured out, but a few of the recent threads on rear ends made me wonder.
Drivetrain says; “The following figure presents differential cover/cover gasket shapes. Counting cover bolts and cover shapes is a common method to determine which ring gear diameter differential you have in your rear wheel drive vehicles.”
So when I hear 10 bolt, 12 bolt etc. , I‘m gonna assume the person generating the question or reply knows what he is talking about and that they are looking at the cover and counting bolts!
Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL

Denny G
Sandwich, IL