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PostPosted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 11:27 pm    Post subject: Pontiac differential? Please help. Reply with quote

Am trying to decode and identify this 10-bolt differential. The code is:

SA B270 2

It may be a Pontiac 8.2. The cover has the "scallop" cut-outs on either side. Can anyone help? Much thanks.

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 7:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The only info I have is from an interchange manual

SA - 1978 2.29 locking (48-21)
10 bolt cover
7-1/2" ring gear
1978 Cutlass
1978 Gran Prix

B - Axle mfg plant is Buick
270 - Calendar day of year
2 - Built on the second work shift on that day
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 3:57 am    Post subject: Thanks Reply with quote

Thanks Mike. This helps a lot.

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PostPosted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 11:09 am    Post subject: axle code Reply with quote

I also need some help identifing an axle. This axle came out of a 1982-3 olds 98 reg bro.

It is a posi 10 bolt type O?

the code on the axle is:
4 DV C 1*2
*=0,6,9?

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PostPosted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 3:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

According to the interchange is would be from a 1984 Olds 98

2.73 Posi
10 bolt cover
7-1/2 in ring gear

C - Mfg'd by Chevrolet G&A at Buffalo, NY plant
1?2 - julian date

Info from Hollander Parts Identifier 1960-89 (Printed 1991)
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