rearends
 

i am looking for a 5 lug rearend. are there any other vehicles besides 67-72 that would fit nicely? also, are there any aftermarket company's that make nice rearends that would fit?

no, only 64-72 will bolt in, unless its a 4x4 or a 1 ton

there are companies liek early classics that sell a kit with everythign needed to weld in a 73-up axle into our coil trucks, leaf trucks are a hair easier to weld in, only because dotn have to wrry about the panhard bar

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Yeah but by doing that, you'd be going from an exelent rear suspension to a crappy one. Lotic, what year is your ride? (hoping it's a '70)

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Andy, in Columbus Ohio

no i meant swapping a leaf axle into a coils truck or swapping a coils axle to a leaf truck, not ocnverting over one way or the other, yeah hopefully he has a 70 then he can put any 12 bolt 70-72 shafts in that he wants, 5 bolt 6 bolt 4x4 or 4x2, any of them.

good luck

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[This message has been edited by Fast68Chevy (edited March 18, 2002).]

ok, I thought you ment the whole suspention. Your reading my mind on the axle shafts.

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'69 G.M.C. 350/350. Trying to clean up the left over damage from the Dope-Smokin-Old-Man
I've been dubbed the Longhorn Freak/Fanatic/Expert, I just hope I can live up to it.
Need to pick up the one ton Longhorn with a PONTIAC 350/350soon.
Thanks every one!:)
Check out The Longhorn Webite.
If you need a pic posted, E-mail me at longhornmail@yahoo.com
Andy, in Columbus Ohio

its a '67.

A 1976 Lincoln Mark IV rearend will fit. It comes with a 9" rear with disc brakes and the same 5 lug bolt pattern.

Tamura, can you shed some light on this....is it a bolt in?

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'69 G.M.C. 350/350. Trying to clean up the left over damage from the Dope-Smokin-Old-Man
I've been dubbed the Longhorn Freak/Fanatic/Expert, I just hope I can live up to it.
Need to pick up the one ton Longhorn with a PONTIAC 350/350soon.
Thanks every one!:)
Check out The Longhorn Webite.
If you need a pic posted, E-mail me at longhornmail@yahoo.com
Andy, in Columbus Ohio

To get the 1976 Lincoln Mark IV rear to bolt-in we had to cut off the shock brackets and control arm brackets. We then cut the control arm mounts off our original rearend housing. The mounts were slightly grounded down to custom fit the Lincoln rearend housing. Once the mounts are made to fit then the rear was placed under the truck with the u-bolts and mounts loosely mounted to allow proper alignment. Once the adjustments were made we tack welded the control arm mounts, then we removed the rear to get a better weld on the mounts. We then placed the rear back under the truck and bolted it in. As for the panhard we had to extend it and had to weld a bracket to the control arm. We also welded a tie rod into the panhard to make it adjustable. You can also buy a adjustable panhard made for our trucks just for this conversion. Setup the emergency lines and brake lines. You may also want to change the proportioning valve if the rear brakes remain under pressure after releasing the brake pedal. I didn't seem to have that problem, so I left my proportioning valve alone. The whole setup takes a little work, but you get a Ford 9" with a third member that can be swapped out easily if you want a different gear ratios nd best of all disc brakes.