Last week up in the sand hills I stumbled upon a late 80's Lincoln with 4 wheel disc brakes. I am not sure of the year of the car and I think I will be heading there again tomorrow, so I can get a better look. I read an article in the Sept. 2000 issue of Classic Trucks magazine written by Doc Fromader about how easy one of these diffs were to install and how well they worked. According to the article, this is a 8.8 **** , which superceedes the 9 inch **** . He used a prototype kit from Air Ride Technologies which is about $600 (ouch). This kit comes with the frame boxing plates and everything else. After being stung once before by one of Doc's articles (89mm GM and A-833 Mopars are NOT the same tranny) I am a little leary of this. Is anyone running this rear end and if so how easy was it to install. I am a profiecient welder and fabricator but have never done a rear end swap before, so this is unchartered territory for me.
My other alternative is using the rear end from a 64 Chevy car. From second hand info I am to believe it is the same width as the stock rear end. I am not familiar with the suspension on a 64 Chevy car but I think is uses trailing arms and coil springs. I have heard it referred to as a Hotchkiss suspension, whatever that is.
Anyway, any advice, suggestions etc. you send my way will be greatly appreciated.
