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Grumpy Old Fart
So, photo bucket is pretty much dead so the pic links are also dead. Probably means no more pics in my thread either. Oh well, that's the way the cookie crumbles.
So I pulled the pinion flange off and was ready to swap in the mustang 8.8 pinion flange.
Sure enough, different spline diameter so it's the explorer flange or nothing.
So now I'm faced with a flange that fits the pinion, but the driveshaft flange doesn't match the bolt holes spacing.
Well, I'll fix this!
I bolt my small rotary table to the drill press. Then I clamp the explorer flange to the rotary table and zero it. Then I clamp the mustang flange to the explorer flange, carefully aligning the two flange bosses together. I rotate the mustang flange until the bolt holes are centered over clear metal on the explorer flange. Clamp it all down solid and do a few more runouts to make sure everything is still true.
Once it's all good to go, I drill the new holes in the explorer flange. Rotary table makes being consistent with spacing and concentricity a breeze.
Then a M 12 x 1.75 tap puts the threads in.
Back over to the car, install and torque it to 150 lbs and bolt up the driveshaft. Works perfectly.

Mini starter was ready to go in, but I need shorter bolts.
Now I'm working on adapting the magnaflow stainless exhaust to the car.the bbk h pipe is being a pita, it's just not lining up and I'm already stretching and pulling with the portal power. The over axle tubes are also going to probably need some altering due to the panhard bar being where the want to drop behind the axle.
Fun, fun, fun......
So I pulled the pinion flange off and was ready to swap in the mustang 8.8 pinion flange.
Sure enough, different spline diameter so it's the explorer flange or nothing.
So now I'm faced with a flange that fits the pinion, but the driveshaft flange doesn't match the bolt holes spacing.
Well, I'll fix this!
I bolt my small rotary table to the drill press. Then I clamp the explorer flange to the rotary table and zero it. Then I clamp the mustang flange to the explorer flange, carefully aligning the two flange bosses together. I rotate the mustang flange until the bolt holes are centered over clear metal on the explorer flange. Clamp it all down solid and do a few more runouts to make sure everything is still true.
Once it's all good to go, I drill the new holes in the explorer flange. Rotary table makes being consistent with spacing and concentricity a breeze.
Then a M 12 x 1.75 tap puts the threads in.
Back over to the car, install and torque it to 150 lbs and bolt up the driveshaft. Works perfectly.

Mini starter was ready to go in, but I need shorter bolts.
Now I'm working on adapting the magnaflow stainless exhaust to the car.the bbk h pipe is being a pita, it's just not lining up and I'm already stretching and pulling with the portal power. The over axle tubes are also going to probably need some altering due to the panhard bar being where the want to drop behind the axle.
Fun, fun, fun......
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