Is there a Ford 9 inch front axle?

Yes, there is a Ford 9 inch front axle. While the Ford 9 inch rear axle was produced from 1957 through 1986 and was installed in nearly every Ford passenger car and truck, the front axle is less common. Aftermarket companies like Strange Engineering and Moser Engineering produce the Ford 9 inch front axle for the drag racing and hot rod industry. It is worth noting that the Ford 9 inch front axle is a semi-floating, drop-out axle and is known for its strength, which is why you can find it in various makes of cars, not just Fords.

When did Ford stop using the 9 inch?

1986
It is known as one of the most popular axles in automotive history. It was introduced in 1957 model year cars and ended production in 1986, having been phased out in favor of the Ford 8.8 inch axle. However, aftermarket companies still produce the 9-inch design.

Why is the Ford 9-inch so strong?

The Ford nine-inch, introduced in 1957, incorporated all that smart thinking but had distinct advantages. First, there’s the diameter of its ring gear at—you guessed it—nine inches. That’s larger and thus stronger than most contemporaries. Ford engineers increased the angle of the pinion’s teeth, as well.

What vehicles had a Ford 9-inch?

The Ford 9-inch rear end, so named because of its 9-inch ring gear diameter, was manufactured from 1957 to 1987 by the Ford Motor Company and installed in some intermediate and most full-size Ford, Lincoln, and Mercury passenger cars, F-Series ½-ton trucks, and Econoline vans.

What is a Ford 9-inch diff?

Ford 9-inch diffs feature larger diameter ring gears which creates additional distance between the centerline of the ring gear and the centerline of the pinion gear, known as hypoid distance. This relationship impacts performance. “The key here is hypoid offset,” says Gus, “The vertical offset from the axle centerline.

What size are the axles on a Ford 9?

These axles are 65 inches wide from wheel mounting surface to wheel mounting surface (a 68-inch-wide E-series van version is also common), feature the legendary 9-inch diameter ring gear, large Timken set 20 axle bearings, semi-floating 28- or 31-spline axleshafts, drum brakes, and a 5-on-5.5 lug pattern.

What size are front fork axles?

The most common front thru axle OLD dimensions are 100 mm, 110 mm, and 150 mm for front axles and 130mm, 135mm, 142mm, 148mm, and 197mm for rear axles. To accommodate both OLD sizes and dropout sizes, there are over 40 different thru-axle lengths on the market today.

What size are front axles?

At the front, road bike thru-axles are now pretty much standardised at 100mm long by 12mm wide (although some early thru-axle road bikes had 15mm-diameter thru-axles). Rear thru-axles usually measure 142mm long and have a 12mm diameter, but you used to be able to find a few bikes with 135mm thru-axles.

How do I know if I have a Dana 44 front axle?

To figure out exactly what axle you have, you can look for the Dana stamped bill of materials number. This stamped number can usually be found on the righthand side or on the longer axletube on the same side of the tube as the differential cover, facing the rear of the truck.

Why is the Ford 9 so strong?

The most important design feature that adds strength to the Ford 9-inch is its offset pinion gear. When viewed from the side, you can see that the input on the 9-inch sits rather low in the housing. This may not seem significant, but it has vast implications for the strength of the rear end.

What is so good about a Ford 9-inch?

Besides an inherently large ring-gear diameter (bigger than all competitive passenger-car performance rearends, except the massively heavy and relatively rare 9¾-inch Dana 60), the Ford’s biggest strength advantage over competitive rearends is its greater hypoid distance.