Conversion of Banjo Rear Axle to Modern Axles

[JSeery]

Several folks have ask about past magazine articles on converting a Banjo Rear Axle to except Modern Axles. I posted a very faint example in another thread, It came from Street Rodder Feb 1985. I also have copies of (also fairly poor quality) of a Hot Rod article from Nov 1960. In both cases the rear end used for the more modern parts was the 49-50 & early 51 Mercury. There are three basic group of parts required, the axle gears, the axles themselves & the ends of the axle housings.

I did not want to attempt to locate an early Mercury axle and based on a lot of research came up with a similar approach using Ford 9 inch axles and housing ends and a 7.5 set of Ford axle gears. Again, anyone interested in details, let me know, I was mainly post the magazine references in response to the question.