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Rhino6678

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Ive got a stupid question to ask...

im goin this weekend to pickup a rolling chassis from a 93 dodge 3/4 dsl
autotrans and transfer case for cummins dually conversion...

but isnt the front axle a dana 60 .....???
 
Yah, but i think its a ball joint 60. The desirable older ones are kingpin. Much stronger, more reliable.
 
The front will be a Dana 60. Not sure on the ball joints or kingpins though.
 
I believe should still be a balljoint D60 just not central axle disconnect. CAD started in '94 2nd gen body style, still a balljoint D60 as well.
 
but my understanding is that they were still a kingpin untill 93 chase 94 was a new body style and the punkon was a driver side drop
 
NAPA Online lists ball joints except if it has the 4500lb axle. I'd bet that means the light duty V8 models got D44's.
Then it lists kingpins for the 4500lb axles.

My money's on a '93 W350 with a Cummins having a Dana 60.
 
It's a kingpin axle. Dodge used them until 93, Chevy until 91, and Ford...well I'm not sure. I know they kept using them but then changed to the balljoint styles.

Plus, I've got a buddy who has a 93 W250, it's a kinpin axle too.
 
Croatan_Kid said:
It's a kingpin axle. Dodge used them until 93, Chevy until 91, and Ford...well I'm not sure. I know they kept using them but then changed to the balljoint styles.

Plus, I've got a buddy who has a 93 W250, it's a kinpin axle too.
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The kingpin Dodge D60's are good axles, all 4WD Cummins trucks should have either a D60 or D61 under them. Up to '93 sounds right to me but a quick google search could probably confirm this.

The ball joint Dodge stuff is generally not very good, mostly 32 spline stuff with CAD (central axle disconnect, two piece axle shafts on one side that add complexity and another failure point).

Ford got rid of kingpin axles in the late 70's, when they switched to TTB stuff. Once they started putting solid axles under their Superduties (90's) they were all ball joints.
 
Ford only put the D50 TTB under the F350's for a few years in the early-mid 80's. I wanna say by '86 or '87 they were back to a Dana 60 but it was a ball joint version.
 
ford KP ( king pins ) models were from 78/79 then picked back up in late 85 till 91.5, then they switched to balljoints. so the 85 up axle's had KP's. during the 1980 thru late 1985 the F-350 got the TTB ( twin traction beam ) axle, what was ford thinking with that idea:doah:

to the OP the dodge axle your looking at could be a dana 61 not a dana 60. the 61's use all the same parts as a the 60 but have a different offset for the pinion and ring. this is so you can run numerical lower gears like 3.31 and 3.07's.
some of the cummings package's offerd this insteed of lets say 4.10's in the dana 60.

the 61 can be built the same way as a 60 and deeper gears are made ( i think there the same 60's ) you just need a ring or a spacer for the gears. the outers are the same, the spline's, the shafts and the strength. so for 500.00 dollars and it has internal hubs your getting a good deal.

jason.
 
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