im still searching so don't tear me a new one. my rear end is making some noise and I found a lower mileage, posi, 3.23 ratio rear end out of an 82 camaro at a good price to replace my 2.73 open. from what the great prophet google says all years of the third gen rear ends will bolt right in but I would fee better if a few of you guys agreed as well.

 

 

Yes its a 10 bolt and 56 inches

 

Yes it'll fit.

Nothing but 10-bolts came in 82 cars. (operative concept being, "came in")

Brake fittings will be different. Your car is metric, that rear is SAE.

99.999% odds the posi is smoked and totally non-functional. Check the breakaway torque on an axle: should be around 65 ft-lbs for a like-new one, if it's less than 30 or so you'll be hard put to even tell it's there. No sense paying for something that's supposed to do something but it does so little you can't even tell it's there.

 

supposed to be an 80k mile car. Im hoping its a good deal. So my brakes wont work on the 82 rear end?

 

Sure, they'll work fine. (assuming they're drums) You'd just have to swap EVERY SINGLE PIECE of the hydraulics over; hose, lines, & cyls. Your car has all that metric, the 82 has SAE. No hose made with the one at one end and the other at the other to my knowledge.

 

You could easily have custom hoses made for the brakes. Any hydraulics or hose/fitting supplier can do it or come up with the fittings and generic -3AN lines to make it work from metric to SAE. We build all manner of oddball -3 lines (which are SAE) with metric fittings for custom oil and brake lines on imports. Almost anything you can imagine is available one way or another - even if that means silver soldering one fitting to another to make it work. Had to do that many times.

GD