Five Lug Ford 9"

[koda6966]

They made them right? Older F150's were 5 lug instead of 8 IIRC and still had the 9.

Hopefully I'm right, my JY has a sweet sale going on for 5/6/7 lug axles but 8 is still the regular price. I'll take a 5x5.5 9 if I can find it.

 

[wahlstrom1]

All factory 9" axle's in truck's are 5 lug...

 

[dangerranger83]

That was all he had to read to be able to race to the JY. There better be pics of a good find.

 

[koda6966]

lol, I thought some were 8 lug? Jeez, I'm excited now.

 

[koda6966]

If you can't tell, I'm new to the 9" world.

 

[koda6966]

Are there any years I should be particularly interested in? I don't mind added width, I'm staying with full width axles. I'm more concerned if a certain year came with better shafts etc etc.

Also, I'm planning on eventually doing a disk swap to the axle. If that changes anything.

 

[cyclegrip]

They are pretty much all the same aside from bearing sizes

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[alwaysFlOoReD]

There are 9" from cars and trucks and station wagons all the way back to 1957 and maybe earlier. A lot of the cars and wagons come with 5x4.5" stud spacing. An old timers trick to fit wide tires was to take a rear from a full size ford 1957 thru 1959 as it was the narrowest backing plate to backing plate from the factory. They were IIRC 28 spline axles. Add a shim to the side gears and you had cheap posi. Some pumpkins came with 4 spider gears and were preferred for the extra strength if adding shims. An old truck with a 6 cylinder would have deeper gears; 4.56, 4.10, 3.73. All this info was gleaned from hot-rod mags of the day and from personal experience; I installed a 9" from a 58 Edsel and a drop out pumpkin from a mid '60s truck with 4.10 gears and did the shim mod and stuffed it under my '68 Torino with a stock '68 Merc. Marquis 429/c-6 combo. It was fun, did 105 mph in the 1/4 and got 17 mpg imperial ~ 13.5 mpg us. I did this in the early '80's. And I still have the Torino.

Richard