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Offline Bruce R.

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« on: December 29, 2016, 06:25:17 PM »
Second time for this, don't know where the first one went.  I'd like to put IRS in my 55 Mercury and I was eyeballing those disc brake ones in the later T-Birds. Anyone out there have any experience swapping those into anything ?


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Re: I.R.S.
« Reply #1 on: December 30, 2016, 08:03:51 AM »
My buddy, Jeff73MachI bought one of the late late model Lincoln/Jaguar units last summer.  It has a complete subframe that it rides in. If you could find something like that, you could bobb off the frame rails and fabricate mounts so the whole thing was installed  as a unit.
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Re: I.R.S.
« Reply #2 on: December 30, 2016, 02:01:18 PM »
Measure your current axle width; hub to hub. Then measure the thunderbirds the same way. If the width is close, you can make the swap. If it's wider then your current axle, it won't work.
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