Rear End Question

[TrevorB18]

I went to a junkyard yesterday, and found a ranger with axle code 86, which is the same as my Ranger. The one at the yard was a 2002 and mine is a 94. The yard called and told me that wouldn't work because it's "too new" and the yokes are different. My understanding is that it would work as long as the axle numbers are the same?

 

[Curious Hound]

Did you actually see the axle? Did it have a yoke connection to the pinion or was there just a flange on the pinion that the flange on the drive shaft would bolt to? I'm willing to bet that your pinion has a flange. If so, just make sure the bolt pattern is the same as the bolt pattern on the flange of the axle you want to buy. Then it's just plug and play.

Many Ranger axles are interchangeable. I removed the 7.5" axle (like yours) from my '93 and installed an 8.8" axle from a 2001 FX4 Ranger. My drive shaft bolted up to the flange on the new axle. My new axle actually had 2 different bolt patterns drilled in it. Can't remember if the old one was like that.

 

[TrevorB18]

Did you actually see the axle? Did it have a yoke connection to the pinion or was there just a flange on the pinion that the flange on the drive shaft would bolt to? I'm willing to bet that your pinion has a flange. If so, just make sure the bolt pattern is the same as the bolt pattern on the flange of the axle you want to buy. Then it's just plug and play.

Many Ranger axles are interchangeable. I removed the 7.5" axle (like yours) from my '93 and installed an 8.8" axle from a 2001 FX4 Ranger. My drive shaft bolted up to the flange on the new axle. My new axle actually had 2 different bolt patterns drilled in it. Can't remember if the old one was like that.

The whole rear end looked identical to the one on my Ranger. The guys at the yard weren't willing to pull it for me (to be honest I feel that they really just didn't want to). The driveshaft on the junkyard one was different but everything else looked the same. I'll probably just have to go somewhere else and pull it myself or find a different yard that will do it for me. Thanks for the reply and confirming what I thought!

 

[6.2]

They're lazy. Nothing more.

 

[adsm08]

Yeah, the yard is full of shit.

 

[Captain Ledd]

The flanges have centering rings on the inner parts that should all be the same size even if the bolt patterns are larger or smaller (there were smaller patterns in the early 90's and older, like '91?, '92?). But even if they do differ, you can mark the holes for the other size pattern on the axle flange and drill/tap them to fit and it should still be centered. The rings make sure it's centered, the bolts just secure it.

And yes, they're just lazy.