Helllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllp! D60 broken stud

[Kay86K5]

I just found this place:
http://www.stengelbros.com/u-bolts/round-u-bolts-htm/58-diameter-round-bend-u-bolts/

Bought a 5/8" x 4.5" x 10.25" and also a 14.25" u bolt (they didn't have any 11.5" long ones, and I didn't want to get the 10.25" one and have it be too short, so figured these things are pretty cheap so I'd just pick up both of them). I already have DIY4x spring plates, so I'll just drill some wider holes to accept the wider u bolt too, no big deal there.

I would rather do the ubolt style in the end anyways. I even had the nicer studs from ORD and they still broke. So I figured I had 3 options, keep working on getting this broke one out, and once I did replace it with the same things and probably have it break again later down the road. Or drill out and tap the casting to accept 3/4" studs. Or just ubolt it. IMO, ubolt is the easier/quicker way to have it be stronger than what I have, plus will take just as much time to ubolt it as it would to drill and tap to 3/4". So ubolts here I come, haha

 

[cybrfire]

I can get them in, in a 4.5" if there is some interest in a conversion.

 

[bigjimmy82]

What is the "shim on top of the spring plate" referred too by the OP? To keep leaf spring from sliding into the studs?

Maybe I need it?

 

[sweetk30]

dana 60 with bolts still used on pumpkin side need 2 shims on that side so stuff gets clamped correctly and not bound up .

 

[bigjimmy82]

I have studs, but no shims. Is it a factory part?

 

[obijuank5]

It is not. It is used after you shim the spring, you have to shim equally and opposite for the spring plate. So you have a flat seat for the bolt to torque evenly.

 

[bigjimmy82]

So if I'm not running any shims to change the pinion angle I am good then? Not sure why I was thinking it was something on the side of the spring to keep it from touching the studs, that's the centering pins job.