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Well,......I ended up jacking the diff high enough to see that the tension bars were not touching the shackles on both sides. So,..removed front retainer bolts bolts AND the entire two bolt rear tensioner brackets from the upper rails. The whole diff assembly dropped down after that. Not sure...

These are a bracket of sorts that has two bolts bolting them to the the bottom of the frame rails, both sides. The top of the rear shackle bolts go through them. There is a tension bar that when the car is on the ground, a tension bar goes across the two rear top shackle sides and provides...

So I am disconnecting everything attached to my LeBaron 7.25 diff, getting ready for my 8.25 replacement. The rear leak springs have something I've never seen before described as a "spring tensioner". It looks like a torsion bar of sorts. The factory service man states must have a special tool...

Thanks for your input. I should have checked rockauto as well as I've ordered many items from them.

Update on the brake hose. After cruising through ebay, I found the exact hose made by Dorman. $28.00,... and on the way !!

Things are almost through with my 7.25 swap to 8.25. I am detailing the rear brake lines but have hit a snag. The brass brake line block that's bolted to to top of the axle housing has two threaded holes for the left/right brake lines. There is an additional fitting/line that's coming from the...

Thanks for that info !!! Just got through stripping and painting shock plates. Will need a drive shaft to complete (hopefully) bolt in. Only other item I'm probably going to need will be new leaf spring bushings. Not sure who makes the replacement oval bushings. Don't really want poly's, prefer...

I'm cleaning up mine now for my replacement 7.25 to 8.25. They're in rough shape but complete including the rubber isolators. A lot of scale and on the tops have some rust decay. They are the 3845128-9. They do have provisions for sway bar but car originally did not come with one. A lot of work...

Thanks for comments. Things are moving along nicely. Gone through final pinion setup/back-lash. Removed set up bearings and replaced with the install kit pressed on's. Slightly changed ring gear pattern but not enough to need pinion shim change. After much research I decided to not use crush...

Install gear pattern problem solved !! The whole issue was MY fault. As careful as I am, I missed one basic item. I couldn't believe it as once this was corrected my pattern came right in. As follows,....when I tore the diff apart, cleaned all compiled the parts I was going to reuse, I assembled...

I have not seen any 2.94's. Most of the gear manufact's start in the 3.0 something. I had thought about the 2.94's as well but just couldn't find any !! Prices seem to float all over as well. The gears I bought were from what I'd call an off brand but I never anticipated that I'd get a set...

New Yukon carrier. Correct for ratio as well. I had bought the set up bearings so that has helped with all the set ups and tear downs. I have gone from zero shims up to 60 thou and can't move the pinion contact point off the top of the ring gear heel drive side towards the middle on the ring...

Well,.....my project has appeared to hit a major snag. I'm currently trying to install 2.76 gears and new everything else into a 8.25 diff. So far I have installed and removed my gears 36 times as I cannot get a proper ring gear pattern. The 2.76 gears are difficult to get as there's not a lot...

Yes,.......about the same effort as any diff that never came in a particular model. It's never going to be a bolt in as factory.

I'm not going through all that cost and setup for this project. I wanted what amounted to as a factory bolt in unit. A Mopar guy in my neighborhood purchased a real nice 86 New Yorker and is intent on putting an 8 3/4 under it. It's not going to be any bolt in but he intends on making what ever...