[GB SISSON]

Home from the hunt. Pleased to find all the dimensions work out perfectly by tape measure. It's still in the back of the 'burb as two contractors are fighting over my services until Friday. I find this axle has the 'large bearing' option and it also has 11" x 2 1/4" brakes. All my resarch shows the 11" brakes should be 1 3/4 wide. Not the case here. The shoes have more meat than I will ever wear off in my lifetime and the shafts are 28 spline like Lanny's 3rd member. The distance between backing plates is 1/4" wider than on the woodie's banjo. The wider drums may increase the track width some, but I have two inches each side before tires rub fenders, so a non issue. It has one dry sounding wheel bearing so will replace both right off. The thing that surprised me most about my introduction to the 9" rear is those sealed ball bearings outside of the housing with the oil seal behind them. Who'da thunkit? Anyways, they are of course readily available. The sites selling these have a wild array of years they fit '48-'79, '53-'72, '64-'79. And everything in between I guess I'll just have to saw them off and find numbers. SKF? Timken? And no, I won't nick into the axle shaft. This will begin Friday if I can get the contractors off my back by late Thursday..... Oh and my buddy Lanny called me last night just before the ferry pulled in to Orcas to tell me he has my pumpkin in the crate! I've had my ass in a sling before, but I'll take my pumpkin in a crate any day over that. Stay tuned.