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If nothing lines up (and it won't, guaranteed), there's a helluva lot more to it than just "hanging" parts.

They aren't a good choice for street/daily driving. The squads - even the current Durango and upcoming Charger Pursuit - don't use poly. They used a really hard rubber, which offered a little bit of elasticity at the limit, vs poly, which generally doesn't.

Anything is possible with a torch and a welder, but the A and F/M/J are completely different architectures. Nothing would bolt up.

My Durango is the same Red as my '79 St Regis E58.

For the record, M-body factory tire/rim sizes: 1980-83 Standard on 318 retail cars was 195/75R15, 5x6.5 rims Squads were 215/70R15 on 5x7JJ police steel 1984-89 Retail cars were 205/75R15 (not 205/70) on 5x7J solid steel Squads were still 215/70R15 Common practice, especially with state...

Oops. You're 100% correct. And I should definitely know better. AHV was taxi/SSV after 2008.

Relevant 1984+ Sales Code Conversions: A34 - AHV (taxi/SSV) A38 - AHB (Police) S16 - SBD (Police) Options were trimmed as model years went along. Also, almost without exception, AHB Pursuit models included the AHV/SSV package(s) as standard equipment. As I always note with Chrysler squads...

Somewhere in mid-1980, maybe beginning in 1981, they added some width to the rear ends, but a newer assembly will work just fine in an older car.

26", used in a lot of stuff, including pickups. Smaller rad was for Slant 6.

I have no idea how this thread popped up. Welcome to the Internet.

The 904 and 727 shared gearset ratios through (at least) 1980, and they were pretty tepid at 2.45/1.5/1.0. In 1981, the 904 family got the wider spread, although some trucks may have kept the older ratios. The nomenclature for the transmissions was all over the place. I had an '88 A999...

Definitely do not try to use it for cruise control. That's not what it was for. It was simply to raise up the idle speed a bit to accommodate extra electrical load and to assist with engine cooling.

The designations were switched up a little bit over the years, along with some other changes, and my advice from many years of experience: Here's the basic history - '81 - '83: A904 in all retail cars. 727 (36RH), all squads, all engines (Slant 6 and 318). These were all lock-ups. '84 - mid...

Be aware that today's performance shops will generally not have yesterday's mechanics working in them. Today's techs know almost nothing about F/M/J cars, except that they're from the "malaise" era. The FSM and copies of the '86 and '88 TSBs regarding alignment procedures are probably...

I always used a heavy 3/4" but as a spacer. Worked perfectly. Look in your junk drawer, it's in there, and the price is right.