I got the 8.5" 10 bolt yesterday. From what I can tell, everything checks out to be what it was advertised to be.
The gear compound marks and the teeth seem to be acceptable.
I did find one interesting thing to note. The stamping on the ring gear reads 3984831 12 14 3 78. I'm pretty sure the 14 was stamped backwards and should read 41, denoting the ring gear tooth count. I counted the ring gear teeth and there are 41 and the pinion has 12 teeth, which is a 3.42 gear ratio.
Daniel
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