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Daves55Sedan · 10-08-2020, 05:07 PM

I live in a town of population 28,000. There is one place I trust in to do rear-end work just on the outskirts of town. If it is pumpkin related, I take the pumpkin out at home and give it to them with new repair parts to fix. The outer bearings and seals I do myself at home.
In your case, you have a Dana 44 integral housing rear axle (used on all wagons, F100 pickups and Thunderbird cars). Those do not have a pumpkin, so you would need to drive it or tow it somewhere. Parts for the Dana 44 are available from resto parts suppliers if not local auto parts chains.
All rear-end drive cars normally make a low-pitched humming noise called "gear helling", but its hard to notice unless you listen for it. If the rear-end makes a loud noise, it could be badly worn gears, pinion or axle bearings, or gears badly out of adjustment. Since this seems to have happened all at once, I would pull the back plate off and see if a shim fell out for the ring gear to start with.

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Daves55Sedan Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Granite City, Illinois Posts: 3,008	Re: 1955 Ranch Wagon/ Rear end Question I live in a town of population 28,000. There is one place I trust in to do rear-end work just on the outskirts of town. If it is pumpkin related, I take the pumpkin out at home and give it to them with new repair parts to fix. The outer bearings and seals I do myself at home. In your case, you have a Dana 44 integral housing rear axle (used on all wagons, F100 pickups and Thunderbird cars). Those do not have a pumpkin, so you would need to drive it or tow it somewhere. Parts for the Dana 44 are available from resto parts suppliers if not local auto parts chains. All rear-end drive cars normally make a low-pitched humming noise called "gear helling", but its hard to notice unless you listen for it. If the rear-end makes a loud noise, it could be badly worn gears, pinion or axle bearings, or gears badly out of adjustment. Since this seems to have happened all at once, I would pull the back plate off and see if a shim fell out for the ring gear to start with.