9 inch ford rear end
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To all the wise men:All the material I have states that a 1977-1981 Granada has a 58.5" Ford 9 rear end...As far as I know this would be correct as I have found this same info. at various sites..My question is I found a 1976 FORD GRANADA(so the guy said, he might have bad vision when he read the registration) and crawled underneath it and measured axle flange to axle flange and it was 58.5"..Does a 1976 Granda have a Ford 9 under it because I would swear that it looked like every other Ford 9 I have seen...: -staun
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the Granada was available with a 9". It is pretty rare as most of them had an 8". Are you sure it is a 9" and not a 8"? The Lincoln Versailles had a disk brake 9" under it and some of them made it under the rare Granada. If it has the disk brake rearend, grab it! They are in demand with streetrodders and Mustangers/
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I will have to check again and look at the brakes, I was going by my visual and the measurements...Note: I posted this in the Transmission section and I guess this is where it should have been all along and received some good information and waiting for more..thanks
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Lumpy,
I got a rear end from a 1978 Granada and it was a WER-AC type, 8.7 inch with a 2.47:1 ratio. Not all granadas had the 9inch rearend. I took a 9inch off that was from an F150 which had my tires about 4inches outside the fenders. Now I can use 10" rims and they will still be inside the fenders. I can tell I have lost some power but overall its O.K.
Jaye
I got a rear end from a 1978 Granada and it was a WER-AC type, 8.7 inch with a 2.47:1 ratio. Not all granadas had the 9inch rearend. I took a 9inch off that was from an F150 which had my tires about 4inches outside the fenders. Now I can use 10" rims and they will still be inside the fenders. I can tell I have lost some power but overall its O.K.
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9 inch ford rear end
Here's a handy trick for telling an 8" from a 9" -- on the 8", you can use a deep socket to get to the carrier housing nuts under the pinion, but on a 9" you can't, you have to use an open/box end wrench because the pinion snout on the carrier bulges downward leaving a little recess for those bottom couple of nuts.
chris seay
bealeton, va
49 f1 (70 f100 9")
49 f1 (74 torino 8")
68 f100 (9")
chris seay
bealeton, va
49 f1 (70 f100 9")
49 f1 (74 torino 8")
68 f100 (9")
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