Ford stopped making the 9-inch rear end in 1986, but aftermarket companies are still making parts for the axle, and racers ...

Hot rods come in all shapes and sizes, which is cool, but one drawback of this situation is finding an appropriate rearend assembly of the correct (or close to it) width. For years, all that was ...

This month we are back at the famous green building that you can see off the Golden State Freeway Cooks Machine Works of Los Angeles. CA. Our friends Jim McCaslin and Paul Thompson took some time from ...

We’re only talking about rear axles here. Front axle systems, whether solid axles, Ford Twin Traction Beam, or A-arm IFS, are all full-floaters by definition. If this seems confusing, the next few ...

Have you ever wondered why some semi trucks have one set of wheels and others have two sets crammed together? That's because some semis use a single axle while others have tandem axles, but why is it ...

Since its introduction in 1964, the Ford Mustang has been fitted with a live rear axle. The original plan was to have an independent rear suspension (IRS), but Ford discovered that $100 could be saved ...