Alan
05-02-2004, 07:00 PM
While this is truck related I have no idea what make is involved so this seems like a perfect place for this.
I was at the junkyard the other day, actually getting rid of stuff, and spotted a VERY stour rear axle waiting to go in the scrap dumpster. So, I says to myself, "Self, that looks like a Dana 70 duallie axle, best be checking that out."
Sure enough, a Dana 70, but an odd one, the case is offset to the right by a few inches. I'm wide open to any idea of what this might have come out of.
Anyhow, the yard owner was only going to junk it as he had no idea what it would fit. He told me if I had a use for it it was mine and so it came home with me. No idea what I'll use it for but it was too good to see go to waste.
I appears to have been sandblasted and primed. Brakes were frozen up solid and since somebody had already tried brute force and busted the inner edge of the drums all to pieces I didn't care if I wasted the drums. I took a grinder and cutting discs to it and cut the drum off one end so I could get one axle to turn. It appears to be 4.10 gears and an open differential. Really nice would have been 4.56 and posi but considering the price I'm not complaining.
I got the axle out of the short side and it appears to be a factory shaft. Those damn cone washers were rusted around trhe axle studs pretty bad but penetrating oil, heat, and a BFH finally got them backed out enough to get hold of them and pull them off the studs.
The plug welds between tube and housing look like somebody shortened the tube on that side but if they did they cut it to fit a stock axle length. I checked the distance between pinion shaft and wheel mounting surface and came up with just a little less than half the track width of the 14 bolt SF in my 3500. It might be a viable project to have the other tube shortened to match.
Brake shoes are 3" wide, wheel studs are 5/8" and look to be a standard 1 ton DRW pattern. The axle tube necks down just behind the backing plate , I never did think to measure the tube OD.
I don't have a use in mind for this yet, but I'm working on it. I'm thinking that if I used a 19.5" wheel with the same offset as a normal SRW 16" wheel I could end up with a narrow rear track and single wheels/tires that would hold up under a load way better than a 16" ever could.
I'm thinking 4.56 gears with a posi on the rear, a D60 with a selectable locker up front, a small block built for torque and mated to a 700R4 so I could have the low geared transmission as well as a OD for road travel. Springs enough to carry an 8611 and a Sidewing with about a 1 1/2 yd vee box.
Grand plans, dunnoif they will go anywhere but it's fun planning it all out.
I was at the junkyard the other day, actually getting rid of stuff, and spotted a VERY stour rear axle waiting to go in the scrap dumpster. So, I says to myself, "Self, that looks like a Dana 70 duallie axle, best be checking that out."
Sure enough, a Dana 70, but an odd one, the case is offset to the right by a few inches. I'm wide open to any idea of what this might have come out of.
Anyhow, the yard owner was only going to junk it as he had no idea what it would fit. He told me if I had a use for it it was mine and so it came home with me. No idea what I'll use it for but it was too good to see go to waste.
I appears to have been sandblasted and primed. Brakes were frozen up solid and since somebody had already tried brute force and busted the inner edge of the drums all to pieces I didn't care if I wasted the drums. I took a grinder and cutting discs to it and cut the drum off one end so I could get one axle to turn. It appears to be 4.10 gears and an open differential. Really nice would have been 4.56 and posi but considering the price I'm not complaining.
I got the axle out of the short side and it appears to be a factory shaft. Those damn cone washers were rusted around trhe axle studs pretty bad but penetrating oil, heat, and a BFH finally got them backed out enough to get hold of them and pull them off the studs.
The plug welds between tube and housing look like somebody shortened the tube on that side but if they did they cut it to fit a stock axle length. I checked the distance between pinion shaft and wheel mounting surface and came up with just a little less than half the track width of the 14 bolt SF in my 3500. It might be a viable project to have the other tube shortened to match.
Brake shoes are 3" wide, wheel studs are 5/8" and look to be a standard 1 ton DRW pattern. The axle tube necks down just behind the backing plate , I never did think to measure the tube OD.
I don't have a use in mind for this yet, but I'm working on it. I'm thinking that if I used a 19.5" wheel with the same offset as a normal SRW 16" wheel I could end up with a narrow rear track and single wheels/tires that would hold up under a load way better than a 16" ever could.
I'm thinking 4.56 gears with a posi on the rear, a D60 with a selectable locker up front, a small block built for torque and mated to a 700R4 so I could have the low geared transmission as well as a OD for road travel. Springs enough to carry an 8611 and a Sidewing with about a 1 1/2 yd vee box.
Grand plans, dunnoif they will go anywhere but it's fun planning it all out.