I don't think we've had a solid Dana 60 thread on here, so I figured it was time to start something up. Enough of you guys have built and rebuilt them, and I had my hand in putting a couple together back in Corpus, so maybe we can get some sort of resource together (here) to be used for reference?
I haven't surfed Pirate enough to be up on the latest cool-kid parts and pieces for axles, so if someone is up on knuckles and axleshafts please fill in some info.
In order to figure some things out, I started pulling the D60 that's been sitting in my garage apart. I don't have anything better to do, so it seemed like a good idea. I forgot what kind of horrible ***** kingpins were. I got one out, but you can see what happened with the other. Suggestions welcome, but I guess I'll drop by Home Depot and grab a butane torch to heat things up some and see if that will help.
I also can't get the carrier out. I know some people have used winches and all sorts of other contraptions, but I don't think strapping it to my apartment carport is going to work so well... I tried a prybar and a BFH, but that didn't seem to help. Again, suggestions welcome.
Weld a piece of 2" square tubing to the kingpin and use a pipewrench to get it out.
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why not find a piece of square tubing, drop it over the kingpin, weld them together, then go to town with a big pipe wrench while its still warm?
edit: damn sharpe beat me to it
As for the carrier, my D70 was really tight as well. I just worked on it for a while with a pry bar, and finally I got it to pop loose. So all I can suggest is keep working on it
as for axle shafts, go with longfield birfs and be done with it
I looked around some more about the carrier, seems I was probably too gentle with it. I'll smack it around some more tomorrow after work and see what happens.
EDIT: Birfields =
buy the cool ones from Twisted Customs...
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Originally Posted by bburris
EDIT: Birfields =
they may be gay but I would sure take a set if I could afford them
or if you didn't mind cutting on the allen key, cut a piece of it off and hammer it into the kingpin and run a good bead around it. then heat it up and use an impact or breaker bar
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did you beat on the allen with a hammer or use a cheater?
Hammer...
Then I stood on it.
you could do what St.John and I did on his. Weld a piece of flat stock to a long piece of tubing (5-6 feet) and then drill a hole in the flat stock, slip it over the kingpin, then run a bead around it. Then one person stands on the housing while the other stands on the tubing and wha-la!
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I don't have a welder, nor do I have a method of transporting an axle housing to a place that does.
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