Summit Racing prices:
Richmond ring & pinion $189.95
Richmond install kit $99.95
Do it yourself?
Get a Ford service manual for an F-150 or a Mustang or anything else with a 8.8 rear. Read the section on "Axle, integral carrier - 8.8 inch ring gear." Look at what's involved, and at the tooling and gauges required, and decide for yourself if you have the equipment and capability.
There's a reason that rear end shops get a couple of hundred or so to set up a r&p.
BTW if you already have a 3.55 the change to 3.73 really isn't IMHO worth the effort or expense, if you have a 3.08 then maybe.

 

How much would it cost to buy these gears? Are they hard to put on or do you have to have someone put it one for you?

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side step it took me about 6 hours to do a 8.8 because i had the right tool to do and the know how. if you change the gears go with the 4.10 or 4.11 and not the 3.73. also if it is a LS rearend change it to a trac-lock i think it will last longer than the LS but that is about a 400.00 dollar upgrade. i think the clute pic is around 75.00 new. it is a lot easyer to do it the first time than do it twice if you add the trac-lock later. also the end shop here wanted 300.00 labor to do. for that price i wound of upgraded to a 9 inch readend a lot easy to replace axle seals. but that is may opinon good luck on the discution.


strangeranger i order the install kit when i did but the bearing were the wrong size. it was cheaper to get bearings from the auto parts place than sending the kit back.
[This message has been edited by rsmckinley (edited 07-31-1999).]

[This message has been edited by rsmckinley (edited 07-31-1999).]