Good Evening, All—


I am working through the (hopefully) final steps of my L-Body A525-to-A520 conversion, and ran across an interesting problem with the Advance Auto/Carquest ’88 Automatic Omni axles I purchased.


Comparing the two ends, on the new axles, the hole for the axle nut cotter pin sits over 1/8” closer to the spline pattern than the original factory axles, both sides. The original axle nut had a thick washer underneath it, but there doesn’t appear to be room for it unless the nut is cut down with the new axles.


Has anyone ever run across this situation before, and if so, what did you do to correct it? I do not want to leave out the axle nut washer if at all possible.

I can e-mail a photo as I cannot attach one here.



Thanks!
David