40 Rear Axle Wheel Bearing Races

[V8 Bob]

Originally Posted by deuce_roadster

I have one in my avatar roadster that Wayne in Idaho did the work on back in maybe 1998. I ended up with a nice banjo looking rear end and axle housings and stock spring with 9" axles, bearings and brakes. Have over 6k trouble free miles on it.
I believe HRW is the same business and Wayne retired and sold to his kids or some other family relation and came up with that name.
I did this modification because I am putting more then stock power to the rear and I didn't want to wonder about the axles even though I have sets of NOS axles for my cars. I have stock axles in the cars with stock engines.

I also had Wayne Atkinson convert the '40 rear in my '32 to 9" axles. Advantages are much stronger axles, easier maintenance and modern drum (or disc) brakes.