The Mule said:
are you talking to me? if so you are on the right track. there are changes to be made.
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lets see your rig with 44s
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are you talking to me? if so you are on the right track. there are changes to be made.
86Cucvbeater
1/2 ton status
Speedo said:This is an old pic from around '79-'80 45" tires with 6.5" lift 60 front, 70 rear, 5.86 gears and Detroits in both ends.
Gus
Man, you have the coolest pictures. Do you have a photobucket album are something? I can't beleive you had this awesome setup back in 79. Dana 60's weren't even popular till what, 1998 or so? ahaha
86Cucvbeater said:Man, you have the coolest pictures. Do you have a photobucket album are something? I can't beleive you had this awesome setup back in 79. Dana 60's weren't even popular till what, 1998 or so? ahaha
I've got a Monty Pics account.
I had been breaking 44 axle shafts (Really) with 17x40x16.5 GMMs and had a set of Dana books and found that Dodge Dana 60 fronts starting in '75 had 1.5" 35 spline inner shafts and huge u-joiints compared to Dana 44s about the time that a friends '75 Dodge 3/4 ton with the Snow Fighter package siezed the pinion from lack of lube. I had a Dana 44 for a Dodge and I traded him the good 44 for the bad 60.
When Chevy first started using the TH-400 with the 205, I figured out what I needed to do to make my 4 speed 205 work behind a 400 by researching parts books.
I've been playing with 4x4s for a couple years now.
Gus
Speedo said:
that has to be the best deal anyone has ever gotten on a dana 60.
runamok151
1 ton status
gmc4cw said:
I absolutely love your truck Kert.
love your camper
squats it a little 
Copasetic
1/2 ton status
Here's mine, FINALLY!! 
JEBSR
1/2 ton status
Not bad. Not bad at all
i know that the axles will be a weak point but thats ok... i can run them for a while untill that i cant find the axles that i want at a reasonable price... if you know how to drive you wont break it... just cannt drop the hammer like im use to...
Big91RustyBucket
1/2 ton status
Na Big bogger's dont care how you drive. .... Really they don't i have had them , and I have seen them . Good luck .
we will see how they go... i know a guy that rusn a build bbc 454 thats built to the nuts and runs 10 bolts front and rear welded shut and 44 gumbo mudders.. hes broke 2 front... just gotta know how to drive...in a while a full floater will get swapped in
without a 60 in the front you will burn through axle shafts on 44's. I lied to myself and said I could go easy on my 44 until I got a 60. after breaking a stock shaft, then a warn HD shaft wheeling, then a warn HD shaft messing around in my driveway, I realized a 44 would never survive no matter what.
mudboggink5
1/2 ton status
as soon as i went bigger than 38" tires on my 44 it was destruction. do yourself a favor and have some spare shafts ready. good luck though.
Big91RustyBucket
1/2 ton status
gmc4cw said:
I concur . It is like polishing a turd . I had 44's on a rig , and my buddy's were surprised That mine lived with me driving.
Another close friend has 10 bolt/14 bolt , And had bald 36.5's kept snapping hub's.
Then we had my old 38.5 TSL's Bald but grooved so they grip real good , and I think he stripped a R&P or something major. So I found him a deal on a d60 and now it is time
Good luck .
Yeah no kidding...that picture is some amazing proof of what he was doing back in the day...What year is that truck? It couldn't have been more than 5 years or so old at the time when he tore into it....
1978Blazerk5
1/2 ton status
gmc4cw said:
ya my buddy learned that with his f250 44's stock 3/4 ton stuff (dana 44 and dana 60 rear) 10 minutes off the trailier he broke a front axel shaft
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