PEM Racing 9 Inch Ford Cut-to-Fit Axle w/ Bearing, Big Ford/New Style

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Here's the good part. These axles seem to be extremely high quality. They are machined straight and true, they are some sort of higher grade hardened steel, and the dimensions are as advertised. The flanges are really nice and thick, and have three bolt patterns to choose from. If you look around, these are about half the price of Currie. Here's the bad part. All Ford 9" axles have a brake spacing of 2.5 inches from the axle flange to the housing flange. These seem to measure about 1/8" further out than specified. Not a big deal for me. The pilot diameter for the brakes is exactly as advertised, but most Ford 9" brakes have a smaller pilot diameter, so I ended up turning mine down in the lathe. I knew that going into it, so I wasn't surprised, and for me it was worth the cost savings over the exact correct axles from Currie. The bearings come with the axles, and the are the Ford large bearing size, but were different than my old ones. These are a tapered roller bearing, with a single seal on the outboard side. So if you use these, you should not have a seal inside the axle housing. The rear end oil is supposed to lubricate these, and the outboard seal keeps the oil in. Also, these come with the bearing retainers, but the bolt spacing was for the small bearing style, not the large bearing style. I still used them, and just put them in the vertical mill to get the holes correct. You probably shouldn't try this in a simple drill press because the holes are so close to existing holes. I'm really not trying to give a bad review, and I am very satisfied, but you need to be aware of these things before ordering. I was going to take it easy on these on the first lap around the block, but as soon as the crowd saw the car, they yelled "lite her up!", so I did a burnout, and then I hit it as hard as I could, and I can tell you the axles held up to the abuse.

Most Liked Negative Review

Bought one axle, had machine shop turn the pilot/register on hub down to fit hole in rotor, all is good,purchased another one for passenger side, had hub turnned down, cut to fit and installed, runnout at rotor was excessive, .090+. Called custermer service and was really not left with any recource, axle had been cut and installed. I removed axle and had the flange faced by machine shop, TOTAL cost of axle after two visits to machine shop is well above cost of a currie or moser unit. POINT here is, check it before you cut it, maybe I got the only one with a problem, this was only the second time I've done busseness with "SPEEDWAY" I think they could have offered to do a bit more than let me incur expence making their product into a workable piece. You do get what you pay for, and although I had trouble that customer service let lay,for the money it is still a good buy for someone who would check it before they try to install. It is the way of most that do busseness these days,keywords are. BUYER BEWARE.