9in ford help,tucking 18x12 budniks with 5.5 backspacing and 55in rearend?

[fillpot]

Guy's got a 9in small bearing ford rearend under my 69 camaro,g-linked,minitubed etc.Here's my problem from flange to flange the rear is 55in,i bought some 18x12 budniks from nathan on here a couple of weeks ago with 5.5 inches of backspacing,once I got the wheels i thought i may have made a mistake with my backspacing,then after doing some reading if I'm not wrong these should work but there sticking out about 2.5 inches out my wheel well.So after doing some figuring I got to thinking about something,the bearing on the axles is setting back towards the splines about 1in from the axle flange it self,the axles are 31-spline mosers that were in the rearend when i bought it,also it has disk brakes and the rotor hat sticks out about 1.5 or so if I'm remember correctly.Sorry for the long post guy's just needing some input.THANKS!

[v8s only]

my 69 nine inch is 55" axle flange to axle flange and my rim is 18x12 with 5.5 backspacing and it tucks in nicely under the quarter panel on my car!
the rear end must be 55'' total with

[fillpot]

I'm going back to check again,what kind of brakes are you running.THANKS!

[v8s only]

I Have Wilwood 12.2 With 4 Piston Caliper
If You Have A Stock With 60 '' Rearend The Weels Wont Fit

[fillpot]

It's 55in flange to flange,I'm wondering if this bearing problem or the brakes are throwing me off.THANKS!

[Ron in SoCal]

V8s said 'total width' (WMS?) and Fillpot said flange to flange? 54.5" total width worked w my 69 w 12" wide rears on a 5.4 BS. On my Ford 9/Moser that made my flange to flange total width 50.5 (+2 on each side for the axles)....



Also consider panhard bar (or lack of) and sidewall flex. Also Wiwood rotors push you out another .25" I believe..

[v8s only]

I think the bearings are ok stock rear is 60'' wheel mounting surface to wheel mounting surface to fit the wheels you have needs to be 54.5 to 55in wheel mounting surface i think you are measuring 55'' before the axles when you say flange you mean rearend and i mean axle flange
the 9in rear needs to be 5'' shorter them stock
hope this make sense

[fillpot]

Thanks guy's that's where i'm screwing up at,I'm getting 55in from axle flange to axle flange not total width,thanks for clearing this up for me.Now anybody in the south east want to cut this thing down for me ha ha.THANKS AGAIN!

[TheJDMan]

The only measurement that means anything is Wheel Mount Surface(WMS)to WMS. My 18x12 5.5" bs are mounted on a 57" WMS to WMS Moser 9" full floater housing. If you narrow the housing consider changing to Big Ford ends they use a much larger bearing. Or you could install a full floater hub kit from Moser. Since you need to narrow the rear housing anyway, just be sure to look at all your options first.

[fillpot]

For sure going to change to the big bearing ends,wish i would have done that before i installed the rear end to begin with,specially for the brakes seems like there are a lot more options.THANKS!