difference in axles

[rawrrediffer86]

What's the difference in the rear axles of a 8.8 3.73 97 ranger & 8.8 3.73 98 ranger? Need to know I have 99 at the junkyard I work at & was just wondering cause I blew out my gears in mine & just wanna swap trying to figure out the difference cause interchange says 93-97 only. Is it the perches? Or something else.

 

[shane96ranger]

I don't know of any differences unless it's in the brakes.

 

[cvar]

In the TRS tech library: (click-here), it says:

"In 1998 the Ford Ranger went to a Dana 35 IFS front axle. The Dana 35 IFS switched from a reverse rotation gear to standard rotation gear. The gears in a 1997 and older Ranger/Explorer will not work in the 1998 and newer Rangers."

Wouldn't the direction of rotation affect rear axle too?

 

[PanamaExpat]

In the TRS tech library: (click-here), it says:

"In 1998 the Ford Ranger went to a Dana 35 IFS front axle. The Dana 35 IFS switched from a reverse rotation gear to standard rotation gear. The gears in a 1997 and older Ranger/Explorer will not work in the 1998 and newer Rangers."

Wouldn't the direction of rotation affect rear axle too?

No it would not. The rear axle has always been standard rotation. Reverse rotation was special to the TTB front end.

AFAIK The 8.8 should be the same in those years... Get out the camera and the tape measure to be sure though.

 

[shane96ranger]

No it would not. The rear axle has always been standard rotation.

X2

 

[88_Eddie]

rears should be the same. different sized drum would be the only thing i could think of.

 

[rawrrediffer86]

I don't know of any differences unless it's in the brakes.

The brakes wouldn't matter to me anyways converted to disc brakes two weeks ago.

 

[shane96ranger]

The brakes wouldn't matter to me anyways converted to disc brakes two weeks ago.

I'd say you're good then. Maybe your system has it confused with the front differential or some crap like that.

 

[adsm08]

It will work, just use it.