CHEAPest way to convert rear axle bolt pattern to big bolt pattern???

Charrlie_S said

I took a look at a 7 1/4 axle, today. There really isn't enough meat to just redrill the flange for the LBP. As another poster stated the hole in the flange to remove the axle flange nuts i the main problem. It really should be filled, then you have no convient way to remove the nuts.
Best to just get a LBP 71/4 "A" body rear.

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Actually you can. you need to fill the original hole, drill for your pattern and then redrill the access hole. that's what I had done (with re-drilling the front 9" hubs for 5 on 4 1/2 and using scarebirds adapter plates) and all for the 75.00 price! but that was after making sure there was enough meat on the axle to give me at least 7/16 meat all around the bolt pattern by the hole it ended up being close to 1/2 nearest the bolt and access hole. I'm looking at a friends LBP and he's got just a little bit more meat than me on the flange and he's running a mildly modded 360.
(he likes road course setups and aggressive twisty roads), and yes I know thay've got bigger bearings in the later 7 1/4 and 8 1/4. myself I'm running a /6 and it'll be a driver. I will get a later 8 1/4 lbp for the next dart if I can find one local to me, because it's a v8.