Dana 60 caliper wedges

[sparkycucv]

I know this has been asked a few times and ive read most every thread about it but i have a different situation and im wondering if anyone has run into this before.

I removed my left side caliper normally but it had no spring on the wedge.. rebuilt everything with new bearings, etc, etc... now putting a new caliper back on the new wedge that came with it has a lip on it presumably to help position the spring when installing it... my brackets literally do not have enough room for the spring i can bearly get the wedge back in by itself (extremly tight fit had to hammer in with a slide hammer punch setup), anyways this lip on the new style wedge is in the way it makes the calpier bind because it causes the caliper to lean the outside pad into the rotor... hard to explain.

Anyways i think i can just use the old wedge with no lip in it even though it is beat to absolute crap, but has anyone encountered this before? seems like a really stupid design on the newer style wedge.

 

[onetonbb74]

I have the original wedge/spring and an aftermarket one from O'Really's...They both work fine. Can you post a pic of your current new style wedge?

 

[jekquistk5]

Compress the piston in the caliper more. Then you can pull up on the caliper and put the slide in. I had the same problem a week ago. The caliper is crooked and needs to be straight

 

[sparkycucv]

thanks il try it tomorrow

 

[4x4_76]

I took a Dana 60 apart some five years ago because I rebuilt the kingpins. Since I had to move the axle around while building my truck, I left all the brake parts and axle shafts out to keep it lighter. Last week I sold the axle, I found all the parts, except those small parts that hold the caliper in place. I looked through Rockauto catalog, and there are some parts, different configurations judged by the pictures.

Flat spring goes between the caliper and bracket, on top of the caliper, right? Then there's the wedge that goes under the caliper, and this wedge is secured with a screw to a bracket, right? But I remember that the wedge which was on my axle had wedge without screw openings on it, and there was a separate plate that hold the caliper so in place.

Did I forgot something?

 

[sparkycucv]

that sounds right, remember that it gets pounded in from the inside not the outside, i made that mistake for about 20 minutes trying to bang it in. If you need new parts, advance autoparts sells the calipers for 35 bucks or something with a 15 dollar core charge so it comes out to 20 bucks a caliper, AND it comes with NEW SPRINGS AND WEDGES, and also new bolts for the wedges

 

[K85 Octane]

I think Orielly's was cheaper. It was like $23 a caliper with a $28 core charge. I just gave them my old calipers. It came with everything you describe. Wedge,spring,bolt...err I think that's it.

 

[4x4_76]

Ok, thanks. I won't need new calipers because the axle is already shipped, I just need to get the small parts and send them to a guy who bought the axle.

This one seems to be one I need:

But then there's this:

Do both of them work?

One other question, what is the thread size of the hublock selector screw? The one with T25 head and is about 1,5" long. It doesn't happen to be metric, like M4?

 

[K85 Octane]

dunno much, just that the top picture is the one I have

 

[onetonbb74]

top pic is stock, the bottom pic is the replacement, they both work, I have the top pic on the driver side and the bottom pic on the passenger side. The kit I have came with a bolt. If you strip the bolt that keeps it from moving, don't sweat it, a 1/4-20 bolt with a nut fits thru the hole and retains it.