I had 2 different sets of plans for the weekend that both fell through so I decided to take on the rearend.
I had snagged some parts off a maroon 740 wagon from Sherwood pick n pull a few weeks back. NA, auto car.
So I got up early on Sunday loaded up my tools, some straps and a hand truck and went for it.
No tag on the rearend so stuffed a pry bar on one brake and counted driveshaft. Spun the drivers side brake around 2 times and counted 4.+ revs. Good for me.
Yarded that thing out in just a little bit of rain. Not too terrible all things considered.
And created this to get it from the very back of the wrecking yard up the hill to the cashier.
It was a heavy sum bitch but worked great!!
Luckily this was not a dana 60 or something heavier or I would have needed some help.
They were nice and charged me for a drum brake rearend so I think it was $120.00.
Got it home and cleaned it up, Pulled the diff cover off, open diff, 41-10 so confirmed it was a 4.10 gear. Cleaned up the cover added new fluid and its ready to go in.
I have a couple issues that stopped from swapping the locker. I have bolt on wheel spacers from the previous owner that are stuck on the axle. I have tried everything I have to get them off with no luck including heat and hammers. But I like them so I am going to try more heat at a later date.
Also want to see how the 4.10's do and if they are enough gear.
Onward we go
Out with the old and a nice driveway **** show for sunday.
Got the new axle swapped in with a little help from the wife to get it in place.
I also cut the small locators off of the pads for the axle so I could rotate it and set the pinion angle and hopefully take some bind out of the rear suspension with the adjustable links installed.
I didnt expect it to make a huge change going from 3.73 to 4.10 but it is huge. The car drives much better, gearing is drastically improved and the car takes off from a stop effortlessly. Before you had to feather the clutch on flat ground and when you would get the clutch engaged it would bog down. 25 mph corners can now be had in third instead of second. 6th gear is usable above 60 on the freeway.
The other big benefit of this was getting a functional emergency brake. I truly use this as my daily driver and not having an e brake just plain sucked.
I installed the cable that was on the junkyard axle so that required a console and rear seat removal.
E brake cable installed and adjusted. E-brake works fantastic!!
I removed the IPD rear sway bar and I like the additional flex, but it does make the car much more of a handful to drive. I will likely reinstall it or if someone has a stock 940 rear bar I would be willing to try that too. Feels like it needs something in the rear its very squishy on accel and decel now and doesnt track that well.
All in all, totally worth a day and $140.00 including fluids.
As of this time its pretty damn civilized. Stereo sounds killer, fun to drive a turbo manual, all of the small maintenance items have been addressed.
Fun car......who is ready to buy a killer lifted t56 swapped 940
Sean