The Stovebolt Site Forums The Shop Area Engine Shop Can anyone tell what kind of rear-end this is on 54 chevy?

This is installed on my 54 chevy. It had a v8 conversion done by the previous owner and i'm trying to figure out what type of differential this is.

Thanks!

The images are on my site:
http://homepage.mac.com/spider/PhotoAlbum21.html

I removed the pics that were here before to limit bandwidth usage.

welcome to the garage volcan - preference here is to use the link for the pics rather than putting them directly inline - saves on the transfer bills for the owners

looks like possibly a mid 50's car rear to me, like 55-57 sedan, which in the past was a common swap to get 5 bolt wheels, if that's what's on it

Bill

Thanks for the info! I suspect that the v8 is also from aorund the same time frame, but I haven't gotten around to looking into that.

Also, I edited the post to remove the pics.

volcan96

I cannot be sure but it looks like the rear in my tri-five Chevy so my guess is from 55-59' car.

good on ya! actually more than 'bandwidth' it's 'bytes transferred', kinda like a mileage charge

yes moneypit, I too thought it looked like tri5 cars I've had, and also the 57 rear that was under my panel project when I got it - that swap had been done 20 or more years ago

Bill

Guys,

Thanks for the information!

Who gets "charged" for bytes transferred if the bytes transfer from my photo server to the viewer's browser? I understand how The Stovebolt page might be charged for bytes-transferred by images hosted on the Stovebolt Page webserver.

On the other hand, displaying pictures (rather than links to pictures) that are hosted on a non-Stovebolt Page server would be an inconvenience to a person using a dial-up connection (they would only want to spend timing loading images of interest).

It seems to me that Stovebolt Page server bandwidth and/or bytes transferred (by the Stovebolt Page server) are not impacted by photos hosted on a poster's server (and served directly from the poster's server to the viewer).

If I am wrong about this, would someone explain how a photo hosted from my server would produce a charge (transfer bill) to anyone but me (it is quite possible that I have totally incorrect/confused understanding of this concept).

Either way, Red58 is correct that the etiquette on this forum is to post links to images rather than using the UBB "IMAGE" (display hosted image) option. We should all follow the site-etiquette.

it is confusion making - some charge is on the site that serves the pic, as well as the site that hosts it - if the pic is hosted away from here, it still hasta be 'commanded to appear' by the bolt server if it is directly inline, and with the asp or whatever setup is used, the bolt server has to integrate it into the page served to the viewer, somehow, even if only supplying the extra lines in the scripting here, so there appears to be some additional 'byte load' added to the bolt

charges are for amount of bandwidth allotted as well as number of bytes transfered - however it works, Peg did say once that they learned the hard way that inserting inline pics gets more expensive fast!

Bill

could that be the original rearend? didnt they switch to open drive shafts in 54? or was it mid 55?

I'm pretty sure that open drive lines came with the TF 55 model and that the 54 and 55.1 had the older driveline (at least that's what the 54 shop manual that I have shows)

volcan96,

You are correct about 1954 1/2 tons having an enclosed driveshaft but the 1955-1st series 1/2 tons had open driveshafts.

Tim

I have two of these rear ends in my 1932 Chevy's, I just looked at them and that is what you have, 1955 to 1957 passenger car. They work good, will stand quite a bit of horsepower and are the right width for the '54. The same housings were used in Corvettes of that vintage, and I have a center section from a '59 Vette in my '32 pickup. It is a little beefier that the pass. car one, but bolts up the same. They have a great range of gears too, from 6.17 down to 3.08