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She's dead Jim, 8.8 swap?

Redwood Chair said:
^ Kudos!

You're a braver / more determined man than I am, a little rain chases me out of the junkyards.
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If I'm already stripping a 240 and starts to pour down, I just keep going. At least there isn't anyone to bother me when it's raining. I'm always ready with a rain coat/pants. When it gets cold I put on some thermals and I'm good to go. :lol:
 
If anyone of you want a 8.8 in your volvo. Let me know I have a jig for welding the mounts. I can source axles no problem. It isn't going to be dirt cheap. But I have the tooling and time for the next month to do it. Pm for deets
 
Search of 1 yard that's open on Sundays only turned up 3.73lsd 8.8, there was a Toyota pickup with their 7.5" diff, there was also a 4runner with I think a 4.56 4 shaft that I looked real hard at until I went back and read Vinny's write up again. I'm going to try the other yard possibly today but I may be stuck with the 3.73.
 
Other pick and pull had what I wanted, swapped the extra short axle in the housing out the door for $177 including tax and $10 core charge that I'll get back if I bring old brokey in. D2 4.10 trac-lock. I gave up on the yoke, I'll either order one in or go back for it, I did get an extra rh brake hose. 165k on the axle, should I replace the guts of the lsd? That thing is ridiculously heavy in a wheelbarrow with 65lbs. of tools, the tire was rubbing on the wheelbarrow body.
 
Nope, its a 9", and you cant use a socket on two of the bottom nuts on the 3rd member.

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I think the rear was originally in a 77 Bronco, and someone put Grenada calipers on it if we deciphered the tag correctly. The story I got was that it came out of a 240 built by a company who did 5.0 conversions. It sat in the sellers parts yard for years and no one there really knew anything else about it. The p/n on the caliper lead back to a Grenada, but they could possibly fit something else as well, it was just a quick search out of mild curiosity since they were getting scrapped anyway.
 
I doubled my investment yesterday with an order to Jegs for the Ford racing carbon fiber clutch disk kit and a new driveshaft u-joint yoke that I didn't feel like going back to the j/y for. I'm gonna start cutting off Ford brackets maybe this evening or tomorrow after work, will drag the 1030 out this weekend to start bracket swap over.
 
VB242 said:
I doubled my investment yesterday with an order to Jegs for the Ford racing carbon fiber clutch disk kit and a new driveshaft u-joint yoke that I didn't feel like going back to the j/y for. I'm gonna start cutting off Ford brackets maybe this evening or tomorrow after work, will drag the 1030 out this weekend to start bracket swap over.
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What kind of limited slip do you find in 8.8?
 
ht834 said:
Hey I sent you a PM about those brackets. :cheers:
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I talked to the guy on Facebook, his TAB mounts come with poly bushings pre-installed. He said most of the people who buy his stuff are north of 600hp. I have the Ben's spherical bearings so I didn't go that route. I do have the benefit of a plasma cutter to use at work that I scabbed the Volvo mounts off with. I just finished everything last night when I welded on a couple little tabs for the Ford brake hoses. Some Bricker posted a YouTube that I used for a guide. He cut off the anti rotational nub that keeps the brake hose from unscrewing off the Ford calipers, I didn't think this was a good idea so I left them and looped the hoses around. It doesn't look super but I think it's more secure. The LSD is great, it was raining yesterday and I changed lanes in 2nd and just sort of slipped the whole car sideways when both tires broke loose like it had rear wheel steering. Feels similar to a weldy when when both tires light up. It also drives out of corners hard, much less drama than the G80.
 
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