So do I.Agreed! I own in!
I should have put this in the "Wall of Shame" thread. Oh well. One thing I left out was the howling sound that came from the axle after the swap. That was what prompted me to pull everything apart again.Back when I was 17, I had exploded the pinion yoke on my '67 Mustang. I purchased the car for $300 with no special deal to give you an idea of it's shape. No junk yard was interested in selling me just the yoke, only an entire axle. So I bought one and took the back covers off mine and the new one to have a looksee. The pinion gear on the newer axle looked good but the ring had a bunch of rust. Conversely, the ring gear looked better on the original axle. So in my mind I'd just swap the better ring gear into the new axle and install that into the car. After driving for a week (had to wait for the next weekend) I pulled the back cover off to find the ring gear had worn down quite a bit. It was then that I learned that the Mustang was produced with a couple different ratios...