military abuse

[mollyman]

well i finaly got me a dana60 sweet its out of a military truck 4.56 gears and its got a locker in it (no idea what kind) does anybody know what kind they put in them?? it is stock and straight out from under the truck, r they alright lockers or are they like the govbombs they put in the 14blts?? now the original question i wanted to ask does anybody out there with military experience know how much these trucks got abused?? it looks pretty good, kingpins, brakes, etc.?? i realy don't want to tear this thing down right away (cause i have never done one before) also i plan on upgrading to new shafts w/ 35spline outers in a year or two so when i do that i will completely go through it. as it is right now i dont even need to regear it. so any help would be great, thanks!! (if it matters i know this came off the army base at fort knox)

 

[84CUCV]

from what i know they never had a locker in them. they do have limited slips.

 

[mollyman]

okay same question but change locker to limited slip ???????????

 

[USSkoval]

I don't know the answer to your question, but it sounds like you're just going to put it in no matter what the reputation of the limited slip is
Just run it and see what happens

 

[Hogback Fabrication]

If the front end came from an M1028 or M1031 it would have a trac-lock, all of the other CUCV's had open fronts.

The trac-lock isn't a very effective posi but its not particularly known for exploding or anything.

 

[BoondocK5]

well i finaly got me a dana60 sweet its out of a military truck 4.56 gears and its got a locker in it (no idea what kind) does anybody know what kind they put in them?? it is stock and straight out from under the truck, r they alright lockers or are they like the govbombs they put in the 14blts?? now the original question i wanted to ask does anybody out there with military experience know how much these trucks got abused?? it looks pretty good, kingpins, brakes, etc.?? i realy don't want to tear this thing down right away (cause i have never done one before) also i plan on upgrading to new shafts w/ 35spline outers in a year or two so when i do that i will completely go through it. as it is right now i dont even need to regear it. so any help would be great, thanks!! (if it matters i know this came off the army base at fort knox)

Kinda depends on where it came from. If it came from a hospital unit it may have not been used at all.
If it came from a unit like mine, it is the axle equivalent of a two dollar whore in "A" town outside Kunsan Airbase Korea.

Rode hard, put to bed wet, then flogged again the next day, and the next and the next, until the only thing left is, well, put up for sale at DRMO

If you re-sleeve a whore with a whole ham, and pull the bone out. That axle probably needs the whole pig stuck up there...

 

[resurrected_jimmy]

Interesting, we didn't beat on CUCV trucks much, they were mainly support and maintainance trucks, but that description fits or gun trucks and bradleys pretty well

 

[AJMBLAZER]

For the record most CUCV's that I've seen (mine included) lived fairly sedate lives and didn't get wheeled much if at all. The Army in particular learned the lesson that civilian based vehicles aren't tactical vehicles with the Dodge M880 series before these so they were usually fairly well treated. Even if they did get used by land warfare units (mine supposedly belonged to a tank unit for a while) they often were left to personnel and cargo hauling duties and the worst they saw was a rutted two track.


As said above yours is likely an open diff unless it's one of the units out of a 1028 or 1031 that came with the LS front. However statistically you're more likely to have an open diff.

 

[DieselDan]

Odds are your axle came from a M1031 (Contact Maintenance Truck) as the M1028 were rarer and only certain models (M1028A1? M1028A3? I can't remember) has the front Track Loc.

Either way those trucks got heavily loaded (M1028's were built for hauling a Commo shelters ie: RATT rig) & (I had mechs that liked to load the whole spare-parts bench into their Contact Trucks). Most were never "wheeled" hard 'cause the would get struck pretty easy and were fairly top heavy (note the dually version M1028s).

 

[mollyman]

thanks for all the responses but i know mine has the trac-loc, i have seen it and it has srw hubs. well i knew the abuse question was kind of generic just wanted to see some opinions cause i figured there would be some military guys on here. i mean it is a dana60 so does it even matter how hard it was run?? there is no water or mud or metal in the diff so i was just going to change the fluid and go, is there anything else i should do??

 

[85HeartBurb]

I know any ones we came across got beat up MARINE style work hard play harder!!!! And we still used them to transport stuff the combo i picked up showed 20K on the tick so i let them be with just fluids being replaced!!!!

 

[454k30]

we beat ours pretty good. Not really wheeling just not slowing down for speed bumps or any sort of rough dirt road.