Like i said wish me luck,goin to look at a 9" with disc brakes tonight whole rear end and the guy only wants $200 said he pulled it out an old lincoln and its 58.5 long.....yahoo: I am so freak'n Happy!!!!! Thanks, J.D.
IT looks like it might be a keeper,but i wodered something,will the disc brake bracket on the rear of a small bearing 9" fit on an 8" mav rear end with out mod?
Good score, for $200. Lincoln Versailles and Mercury Monarch 9 in with disc didnt have small bearings, at least mine doesn't. They use the same bearings and housing ends as the F150 pickup rear housings, and also use 1/2 inch retainer bolts instead of 3/8 inch bolts. In fact, when I junked out the disks on mine, I used 64 F150 backing plates with 57 Ford station wagon drums. Double check before you count on the small bearings. By the way, the later Ford Explorer rear disks are a much much better setup. The early rear disks were heavy and went through pads like nobodys business. The caliper is a rude floating design, and wore pads unevenly on both sides.
Well we know for sure its a small bearing but we dont actually know what it came out of thats just what the guy said.
Well i went and picked it up for $175 and its acting like it's even got a Trac-lock on it so i am all sorts o happy!!
You got a good deal for 175, especially with trac-loc. The last disk brake rear I bought I gave 200 for and that was about 10 years ago or so. It needed rotors and calipers rebuilt too.
If you got a 9" disc Versillies rear, why would you just take the discs off and put on an 8"??? They wouldn't fit off a Lincolin rear, but I hadda ask 'why'... The only ones that fit small bearing are the Crown Vic 8.8" discs. Exploder 8.8" discs fit Torino bearing... Don't know what fits large bearing, maybe Versillies. I know they had big bearings, but don't know which. (regular big or Torino big)
Why is because i am gonna put in new axels(their 28 spline) and gears. So for small bearing rear end i can use explorer disc's awesome!
No... Exploder discs can be slightly modded to fit a Torino bearing, NOT a small bearing. Some year Crown Vic discs can be slightly modded to fit a small 9" bearing/big 8" bearing (5 lug 8").
