Begster
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I'm fairly certain that the Ford Stub shaft will work fine in the Chevy small bearing spindles. I'm running waggy stub shafts in my Chevy spindles.
I'm guessing they're all the same.
And I'm 100% positive they will not work fine. The waggy shaft works with the chevy because the chevy/fsj stuff are identical. The ford vs. chevy/fsj stuff is not.
The length of the shaft is different. A ford shaft is shorter, and if you put it in a chevy spindle, the splines will not extend past the hub body and there will be no possible way to get the snap ring on.
Cruisinillusion expereinced this in his build thread a number of years ago, and I compared the ford stubs out of my axle with the FSJ stubs I had from the axle I took the flat tops from, and they were different lengths. The spindle always determines the stub shaft.