12 Bolt Axle Asm Weight

[Z10Mike]

Does anyone have an accurate weight for a typical 12 bolt Camaro axle assembly?  I'm working with my brother to have his axle shipped and the freight company requires weight for their quote.  I'm guessing it might be around 200lbs.  I conducted a search and there was only one thread that stated the housing was around 90lbs.  The former owner has no means of weighing it.  Any help is appreciated.

[Mike S]

 I remember weighing one in the 80's. I believe it was in the 190# range.

Mike

[69Z28-RS]

BAthroom scales will work... 

[BULLITT65]

Are you asking with gears and axels and full brake hardware (and drums) and emergency brakes cables? Or has it been stripped down?

Gary has the right idea if you have a guy who can man handle it, or balance to on the scale.

[69Z28-RS]

manhandling a full rear by oneself would be tough (if you mean picking it up and carrying it around)..    When I have to 'handle' one by myself, I lift one end at a time and get it onto something that rolls...   but if the rear is out of the car, take the scales to the shop/garage where the rear is.. then lift one end at a time to get the pumpkin center on the scale, then move to the other end to get it balanced..  No problem...

[BULLITT65]

Sometimes you don't have access for a wagon or level ground when finding a rear end... 😉
( I have brought a shovel)

[69Z28-RS]

Mike was asking about 'shipping weight' for a complete rear, Austin...  NOT how to get it out of a junkyard... 

[BULLITT65]

Well all I was saying is you just have to have a strong enough guy or guys, to lift it and set it on a scale.
But to your comment of rolling it around, sometimes the confines of our shop or where the rear is located do not make it easy to roll around. I have seen guys shops so tight you had to move around sideways in them,.. Oh wait that is my shop....
I doubt this one is buried, but I am sure many of us have had to get strategic in moving them around is all.

[Mike S]

manhandling a full rear by oneself would be tough (if you mean picking it up and carrying it around)..   ...............

  Back in the 80's (and my youth) when I did the first restoration on my 67, I actually carried the 12 bolt from bench to bench with no problems.
I would even pull cast iron heads off a BBC leaning forward into an engine compartment without breaking a sweat......... Roll forward to 2018.......if I tried that today I'd be speaking a few octaves higher and be in some form of a back traction device. When I re-restored my 67 this time around I had to have my son help me carry the very same 12 bolt that I was once able to carry by myself. The slow decay of time catches up to us all.   
 
Mike

[69Z28-RS]

I have one in the basement (an OTC disk brake unit), with the gears/axles/brackets/etc (without the rotors/calipers) that I can/did lift a few years ago to sit it atop a wheel barrow.  I could go weigh that one, but not sure how accurate it would be versus a stock Camaro 12 bolt since the axles are much larger!

PS.  I used to do a lot of stuff that I shouldn't have and I have back/joint problems to prove it!    Now I try to use my brain more and my back muscles less... 

[Z10Mike]

Thanks for all of the interest and feedback.  We are trying to do this remote control at this point and the seller isn't set up to weigh it.  Again, this is a complete drum to drum axle with all internals. I hope nobody thinks they're still 10 feet tall and bulletproof and attempts to tote one over to a scales.  My mind says I can still do things that my body can't live up to.  Getting old is humbling!  If all else fails I will tell the freight company it is 225 lbs. and hope that covers it. 

[Kelley W King]

I was going to say tell them 250 but 225 will work. Not much difference in price to ship anyway. A lot of shipments I receive at work are noted as weighing way more that it really does.

[HustleRussell]

Mike, I've got a 1970 Monte Carlo 12 bolt fully assembled drum to drum with cables.

210 lb's.
 

[70L34]

Thanks! Good info to have.

[69 Zee]

Boom !  There ya go    3 or 4 yrs ago I shipped out a 12 bolt rear fully assembled from backing plate to backing plate (no brake hardware or lines) and I shipped at 200 lbs.