MY 73' Scamp has a 8 bolt plate on the rear!!! what the &#@%!!!! I cant figure out what year its from!!!

&#@% man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Seven and a &#@% quarter, man.

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If it ain't broke, fix it!

sweet, what years were they used?

The 7-1/4" rear axle is the smallest/weakest used in US-design Chrysler Corp passenger cars. Not something to celebrate. They're perfectly adequate when used behind stock or near-stock slant-6s, but reef on them at all and they start disintegrating...especially in the post-mid-'70s models that were weakened from the original design (2 spider gears instead of 4) and were hauling around the weight of cars much heavier than the '60 Valiant that rear axle was originally designed for.

First year used was '60. Last year used was '98 or so (4-cylinder Dakota)

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Too many people who were born on third base actually believe they've hit a triple.

I cant delete this.

I now feel enlightened and full of joy.

is there a way to tell what decade mine is from? Im pretty sure mine isnt the original that was in the car because the centerhubs are smaller on the rear wheels than the front, and my car was hit on the quarter panel before i owned the car.

You're facing a bunch of weird stuff here. Smaller-than-normal centre hubs, 8(?!) bolts on the cover...it's difficult to say without pictures, but it sounds a little like some past owner was lazy and didn't fix the car properly, just hacking in whatever vaguely-right-size axle assembly he could find.

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Too many people who were born on third base actually believe they've hit a triple.

I figured somewhere along the same line. I thought at first it was just the whole brake assembly that was changed, but then I wasnt really sure. I thought the brakes were possibly taken off a mid 80's crhysler seeing as I obtained a spare tire from a mid 80's chrysler van, but im not sure how that works...

Do you have disc or drum brakes on the front? If disc, the front will have a 4 1/2 inch bolt pattern. If someone replaced the rear from a drum brake car the rear would most likely have the 4 inch bolt pattern. Will a wheel from the front fit the bolts on the rear? If I remember correctly, some of the mini vans had a metric bolt pattern, that will fit on the 4 inch bolt pattern studs( though not a good idea, except for a spare).

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65 Valiant 100 2dr post 170 turbo
66 Valiant Signet 170 nitrous
64 Valiant Signet
64 Valiant 4dr 170
64 Valiant 4dr 225

metric bolt pattern???

im looking through my book for of course Valiant/Duster and it says chrysler used the 7 1/4 for years 1968-76, of course. But why the centre hubs are smaller?? maybe its from the late 60s??? maybe not. the whole on my back rims are aprox 2.25 inch diamter, the fron is aprox 2.75 inch diam, kind of hard to measure with them on the car!!

You didn't answer my questions.

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65 Valiant 100 2dr post 170 turbo
66 Valiant Signet 170 nitrous
64 Valiant Signet
64 Valiant 4dr 170
64 Valiant 4dr 225

opps. I do have disc in the front, I did not check to see if front and back wheels are interchangable. I seem to remember them not being interchangable.