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Smiley wrote:Is the H-body housing you bought a 7.5" ?
The S10 carrier and gears can be put into a 7.5 Monza housing, with some years the pinion shaft must be machined smaller to use the Monza bearing. Or there was a thinwall conversion bearing no machining is required but either way the ring and pinion setup is needed.
The simple solution is to just swap early S10 26 spline axles into an original 7.5" Monza rear end, using 76-80 Monza backing plates and S10 drums.
S10 housings did not have the Torque arm mounting provisions so there is no reason to use the S10 housing on a 75 and later car.
Camaro's and Firebirds used torque arm 7.5" rearends if you really want to retube somthing that would be closer, but the H-body torque arm will requie modification to bolt onto the F-body center section.
Retubing the center housing should be done with a jig and the tube ends checked afterwards with an alignment bar.
with C-clip axles the depth into the center housing is critical
the factory pinion angle must be maintained while indexing both tubes the same.
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