Projects Ford 9 inch with welded brackets

I have been looking for a shop to check and potentially straighten a Ford 9 inch rear end. It has brackets welded and probably has some warpage. I'm in North Texas. Does anyone have a suggestion?

 

What is it in ? Common vehicle or no ? Pictures of damage ? How much runout ? Is it out of the car, and stripped down to just the housing ? Axles bent too ? All of these questions dictate worth. Housing isn't too bad by itself. Strap it down, with heat ... sometimes really easy. If common, may be easier to get another. You know the way to Grand Prairie ... and the hundred plus salvage yards ?

Dallas Differential is on Pollard in Dallas ... also Dallas Frame and Alignment on Fabens Rd. NW Dallas .... just needs strapped/pulled/heated (??). There's really a host of places to go here .... can even recommend some four wheel drive fabrication shops too. Baer Trax is one of those .... off of Ables Lane/Reeder Rd ... also in NW Dallas but the cross street is Southwell I think. Stan Hopkins Company/big trucks/etc is another. You can almost have anyone versed in chassis "oops" repair take you on .... but again, check out the first paragraph and think on it. (Free to fifty bucks and beyond times many plus'ses.)

P.S. Welcome
P.P.S. Good luck

 

Kid -

Kid -- Thanks for the input! It is in a '55 Ford P/U. Just finishing up installation of a 4-bar with coil overs and don't have the capability to check runout and straighten if necessary. Dallas Differential doesn't do it tghis tyupe of work anymore. I'll check out Baer Trax and Stan Hopkins.

Thanks again.

 

Also ... Collin County Truck Parts. Drive shaft works, differential repair, shop work etc. Settled some vibrations on an off topic lowered kid hauler for me. They are big truck/four wheel drive/driveline specialists. The owner has slowed a bit with spinal issues, but if he can't do it, he will refer you on. I'll bet he can do it though. Website is the same as name, plus dot com. He is east of McKinney on 380.

 

I'd check by sliding an axle in it, if the axle goes in without beating on it you are good to go.

 

Rusty @ Dirty's Speed Shop is who you're looking for, if you haven't found someone already.

 

If you want to ship it Hudlow Axles of Rossville Ga. does amazing things with 9" Rears

 

With the center section and axles in, bolt up a wheel and stand it up on the wheel. Rotate the housing and see if top end "loops" much. Check the other end the same way. The run-out is exaggerated quite a bit so if your around an inch or less I think you'd be good.

Gary