8.8 rear?

5.0 Fiend · 01-27-2005, 02:57 PM

Not to hi-jack the thread or anything, but does it really matter how many bolts you have on your diff. cover. I was talking to a guy a couple of weeks ago, (the kind of guy that will tell you he took a stock s-10 through a 10 foot deep mudhole). Well anyways I was telling him the mods I had on my stang, and he said his 305 had a 14 bolt rear end like it was some major upgrade. The only reason I see there being more bolts is for safety reasons,(so if you were to throw your final drive it wouldnt go flying out the cover), so do the bolts really mean anything?

~The Jester~ · 01-27-2005, 05:34 PM

It's not so much an "upgrade" as it is a nomenclature for the rear-end ID. 8.8 Fords have 10 bolts in the cover, so some people call them 10 bolt rears. You'll find that more in the bowtie world than in the Blue Oval Baptist Church. 12 bolt cover is a 8.75" I THINK, 10 bolt is an 8.5" etc etc. Just an easy way to ID the things is all. I don't know of ANYONE that has just added bolts to their current rear diff cover. I have also never heard of a "14 bolt" GM rear.

01-27-2005, 02:57 PM	#1
5.0 Fiend Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Central PA Posts: 87	Re: 8.8 rear? Not to hi-jack the thread or anything, but does it really matter how many bolts you have on your diff. cover. I was talking to a guy a couple of weeks ago, (the kind of guy that will tell you he took a stock s-10 through a 10 foot deep mudhole). Well anyways I was telling him the mods I had on my stang, and he said his 305 had a 14 bolt rear end like it was some major upgrade. The only reason I see there being more bolts is for safety reasons,(so if you were to throw your final drive it wouldnt go flying out the cover), so do the bolts really mean anything?

01-27-2005, 05:34 PM	#2
~The Jester~ Rat Killer Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Cold ass Ohio Posts: 1,143	Re: 8.8 rear? It's not so much an "upgrade" as it is a nomenclature for the rear-end ID. 8.8 Fords have 10 bolts in the cover, so some people call them 10 bolt rears. You'll find that more in the bowtie world than in the Blue Oval Baptist Church. 12 bolt cover is a 8.75" I THINK, 10 bolt is an 8.5" etc etc. Just an easy way to ID the things is all. I don't know of ANYONE that has just added bolts to their current rear diff cover. I have also never heard of a "14 bolt" GM rear. __________________ d-Con Racing "Nothing fancy, just 347 inches of RAT POISON!" MICE need not apply.....

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