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Question for people who know and have some experience with ford d60's...I have a 93 2500 Burban that I'm planning to eventually do a SAS on. There is a chance I have a line out on a 1989 Ford Dually front dana 60. These years are still the kingpin style, which is what I want to make steering easy, these have the wider spring perches but not a big deal on my build as I'm only gonna run a 35" tire or less on it, so not a big deal, but my real question comes in on the hubs. Obviously I would need to ditch the dually hubs and get SRW hubs on there. From quick searching, I have found that SRW hubs for the d60 are pretty freaking expensive...however I've heard/read that you can use Ford dana 50 hubs and they can swap on the axle just fine...anyone had any experience with this? Do you have to replace the spindle to the dana 50 spindle too, or is it literally just take off dually dana 60 hub and install dana 50 hub and your done?

I would like to figure this out before I pull the trigger on anything...and in all reality, just the hubs is the only issue I've found with going with this axle.

Thanks!
 
Just find said Dana 50 and swap wheel hubs/rotors. Everything else is different. lock outs same too.
 
b454rat said:
Just find said Dana 50 and swap wheel hubs/rotors. Everything else is different. lock outs same too.
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So the rotor is different too...so need both? I thought I read that rotors, lockouts, and spindle were the same, but wanted to double check first
 
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To be clear, it's a TTB D50 - not a later ball joint D50. My understanding is it's a bearing hub swap only (like a gm), the spindles and what not should work. No idea on the rotors.
 
It’s been awhile since i did it but think the rotor is different. The SRW hub/rotors have the stud go thru the rotor, then pressed into the hub. The dullie’s are bolted, so the rotor stud ID is bigger if that makes sense. Did it over 10 years ago, and can’t remember what I did the day before...
 
For reference, I reused my SRW rotors on my DRW hubs when I switched them out. That's a dodge 60 with GM outers.
 
b454rat said:
It’s been awhile since i did it but think the rotor is different. The SRW hub/rotors have the stud go thru the rotor, then pressed into the hub. The dullie’s are bolted, so the rotor stud ID is bigger if that makes sense. Did it over 10 years ago, and can’t remember what I did the day before...
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Interesting...I guess if that is true it's not a deal breaker as rotors are not that expensive and I would want to replace anyways...good info, thanks!

GWeakland620 said:
For reference, I reused my SRW rotors on my DRW hubs when I switched them out. That's a dodge 60 with GM outers.
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The one on your blazer correct?
 
nvrenuf said:
To be clear, it's a TTB D50 - not a later ball joint D50. My understanding is it's a bearing hub swap only (like a gm), the spindles and what not should work. No idea on the rotors.
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You are correct, I forgot to mention that it needs to be a Twin Traction Beam D50 as well...thanks for clarifying that :waytogo:
 
Kay86K5 said:
Interesting...I guess if that is true it's not a deal breaker as rotors are not that expensive and I would want to replace anyways...good info, thanks!



The one on your blazer correct?
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Yes correct. The SAS hubs are unit bearings.
 
Does anyone know where the best place is to source a dana 50 TTB hub set? For the best price obviously ;)
 
obijuank5 said:
I got some people who can't give em away. I bet theres a ttb 50 laying around by you waiting to get picked up.
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I'm thinking so too...just need to start putting the word out. Looks like I am going to pick up that 89 ford dually d60. I feel like its a good price so gonna buy it. Should work fine on my SAS, even with the wider spring width, it should work fine with my build as I'm gonna have 35's max on it, and ORD's SAS brackets can handle them fine, plus this one is high pinion and still has king pins, so d-shaft angles with my factory manual shift 241 will be good, and steering will be easy peasy. Literally just gotta get the right hubs on the end and I'm set. I may decide to go 4.56's (this axle has 4.10's currently) as I would still like to tow with it if I need to...so we will see there.

Thanks for the input everyone
 
They used to be everywhere, but haven't been to the Ferd section of the junkyard in months.....maybe even years....never have time.....
 
@78K30 is a ferd guy. I bet he knows about this. Bring me your dually parts and I can give you all my srw stuffoff my '90 ford dana 60. Is this Dan's dana 60 he cant get rid of? I think it has the correct gear ratio I could just swap the whole front end out with it except I would need some dually wheels to make it work. :thinking: I do have some spare Chevy dually wheels laying around that would probably fit.
 
Truckman4life said:
@78K30 is a ferd guy. I bet he knows about this. Bring me your dually parts and I can give you all my srw stuffoff my '90 ford dana 60. Is this Dan's dana 60 he cant get rid of? I think it has the correct gear ratio I could just swap the whole front end out with it except I would need some dually wheels to make it work. :thinking: I do have some spare Chevy dually wheels laying around that would probably fit.
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Yes, this is Dan's d60 I'm buying off him. He is coming up to Idaho for Idaho Tuff Truck Challenge next weekend and bringing it with him and I'm going to pay him then. It has 4.10 gears in it now. My burban has 3.73's in it now. I really want to go to 4.56 to still have good gearing for towing when need be, even with 35's.
 
Yeah my truck is set up for 4:10 gears with the Cummins/zf5/gear vendor and a 35" tire but it sits too tall for my trailer then so I run 285s and my brother-in-law always wanted to drop to 3:73 gears to get the cummins rpm lower on the highway even with the double overdrive. I wouldn't mind putting in some F550 axles and converting to a dually but they all got 4:88 gears. Super duties had 3:73, 4:10, and 4:30 gear options so I might go that route some day with just some F350 dually axles.
If you do convert with Dana 50 stuff hang on to your dually stuff I may be interested in it for converting mine.
 
Truckman4life said:
Yeah my truck is set up for 4:10 gears with the Cummins/zf5/gear vendor and a 35" tire but it sits too tall for my trailer then so I run 285s and my brother-in-law always wanted to drop to 3:73 gears to get the cummins rpm lower on the highway even with the double overdrive. I wouldn't mind putting in some F550 axles and converting to a dually but they all got 4:88 gears. Super duties had 3:73, 4:10, and 4:30 gear options so I might go that route some day with just some F350 dually axles.
If you do convert with Dana 50 stuff hang on to your dually stuff I may be interested in it for converting mine.
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Sounds good...I for sure will be swapping the dually stuff to SRW hubs as this will be swapped onto a burban, so I'll keep it all in case you are someone else needs it for some reason
 
78K30 said:
What’s sad is I’m not even a Ford guy! They’re just so dang cheap around here they usually fall into my lap!
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You got any tech to add about this that we might have missed above?
 
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