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Here are a few pics of a truck dana 60 I am modifying for car use first is what i started with
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here I have added a 1" block gound to fit and welded and tapped
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here is both sides in place and semi finished
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side view
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with junk snubber that I used as pattern mounted
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Nice work.
Thanks I picked this housing up cheap and thought I would play with it a little i still need to do some more finshing around the welds and get the car ends on.
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That looks good.
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How did you weld the iron?
Actually its made of cast steel its not that hard to weld.
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What did you use to weld that with? Stick welder and nickle rod?? Looks sharp man, you did a real good job.
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looks good.....what are your plans to repair the distortion in the bearing bores from welding?
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vancamp
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looks good.....what are your plans to repair the distortion in the bearing bores from welding?
there really shouldnt be any distortion as thick as the housing is and no hotter than I got it during welding, I did not weld solid all the way around all at once, I did a little at a time, I got the idea to do this from a rear end builder so hopefully all is well, if not i have hardly anything invested in it yet so we will see.
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yeah, i was thinking about th edistortion on the machined surfaces myself. it is a good idea though, any heat from welding can do damage.
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Looks good.
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You said this was a truck rear? 3/4 ton with full floating axles? Are the axle tubes 3-1/8" OD? What year of truck (I assume many)? I am looking at using a junker DANA 60, but car ones are just stupid (expensive  ). I can weld, so I thought I could modify a DANA instead of worrying about an 8-3/4. Any comments from anyone who has chopped a truck rear before? 
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You could always use a truck Dana with cal-tracks and mono-leafs. No snubber to worry about.
Vancamp: Looks good!
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very nice job thus far, keep at it
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What happened to the pics? Why were they deleted? I have considered this mod myself.
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yeah where did the pics run off to?
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Dont know, it says attachment deleted by administration
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weak sauce, i wonder what did happen, oh unless did you upload them to teh site to host? i know about a few days back the image gallery was full, maybe they delted alot of the images?
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I want to do the same thing for my valiant could you send me pics since the admin deleted all of yours
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I want to do the same thing for my valiant could you send me pics since the admin deleted all of yours
Even though this is an old thread, I'd be interested in seeing the pictures as well.
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