Re: 8 3/4" rear end housing info

[Ray Bell <camberkits@xxxxxxxxx>]

I tire of finding these dimensions to be wrong...

Some people measure to the backing plates, but they vary depending on
the width of the drums (wider drums have backing plates that are set
back further over the end of the axle), some people measure all sorts
of crazy things... like the track, for instance, which is entirely
dependent on wheel offsets.

I have never found an absolutely correct list of these dimensions on
the net. But for all of that, we can use what we find as a basis for
getting somewhere.

For a start, the narrowest of all (apart from the A-body units) is the
'62 B-body. I am not certain whether or not the '63 is the same or a
little wider, but the '64 is definitely wider.

>From that Hemmings list Gary has included above, I am suspicious that
the '64 figure is wrong. Unfortunately, I don't have the materials on
hand to prove it, but if it is correct I would think it possible to
put '65 flanged B-body axle shafts straight into a '64 housing.

The lengths that we need to have are:

Perches - centre to centre - I have little doubt about those
published, this is the one thing that seems to be right consistently.

Overall housing length. Measured with the drums off, centre out, tape
straight over the flanges and across the front of the empty housing.
Late sixties B-body is 55", late sixties C-body is 56½, '65 to '67 B-
body is 54½", all figures ± ⅛". I have a '61 Dodge housing here, which
has the 6-bolt ends but is otherwise the same and could readily be
altered to the later type, it's 55½".

As the 56½" dimension of the C-body rear comes to 61¾" over the axle
flanges, it's reasonable to conclude that there is 2⅝" of axle sticks
out each end of the axle housing, so 5¼" added to the axle housing
length will be your overall length. A-body axles, of course, don't
stick out quite so far.

It would be good if anyone who has a known (model and body type)
housing they are in a position to measure accurately can do so and add
it to this list so we can learn more about the variations.

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