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Re: Dana 60’s from Ford e350 worth building?
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Price a new S60 bare housing and compare against the core + labor.
Also give some thought about whether you care about the lack of snubber provisions and very slightly greater complexity of service (compared to an S60 with diff bearing adjusters) on truck housings.
I'd done that a few years ago and at the time I think there was a small savings going with a salvage yard piece, but it
may have been worth it to pay lightly extra and not have to do any of the work, and have a shiny housing with no grease or rust to deal with, nothing to cut, just build it.
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Re: Dana 60’s from Ford e350 worth building?
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03/01/24 01:08 PM
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Mine came out of a 1 ton duallie Dodge.
We cut off the full floater ends and replaced with ends I had from an old 8 3/4 housing. I also installed Dr. Diff axles and spool.
With a gear change and some labor to the local chassis shop to burn the ends on, I had around $900.00 in it.
'63 Dodge 330
11.19 @ 121 mph
Pump gas, n/a, through the mufflers on street tires with 3.54's. 3,600 lbs.
10.01 @ 133mph with a 250 shot of nitrous an a splash of race gas. 1.36 60 ft. 3,700 lbs.
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Re: Dana 60’s from Ford e350 worth building?
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03/01/24 01:55 PM
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if you can do the work yourself, [or con a buddy to do it for you with beer for payment] and have the setup bar and bearing alignment plugs, it could very well be worth it. however, if you don't possess the know-how or tools to do the job, it wold be cost effective to just buy the rear done to your specs. then there is the "time value cost" to consider. how much is your time "worth" ? 
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Re: Dana 60’s from Ford e350 worth building?
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03/01/24 03:52 PM
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I used a 1 ton truck axle for mine. The tubes are thicker to begin with for a race car application such as mine. As mentioned above. I cut the full floating truck ends off and we welded on new Strange Engineering ends. I also have Strange gun drilled 40 spline light weight axles and light spool, with a 4:10 Pro Gear, with the low profile calipers to clear for dbl beadlocks, with Strange rotors and 5/8" studs. I have less than $1700.00 into everything.
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1970 Challenger R/T, 528 Hemi
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Re: Dana 60’s from Ford e350 worth building?
[Re: SanityLost]
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03/01/24 04:44 PM
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If my memory is correct ford offered two different Dana 60 H.D. axle tube diameter, 3.0 and 3.250, maybe even a 3.125 width earlier  I've used all three, I prefer the 3.0 or the 3.125 for the weight savings  The shorter , narrower axle tubes, the less weight 
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Re: Dana 60’s from Ford e350 worth building?
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Some of those E van axles were C clip semi floating style. On those it might be practical to have the shafts shortened, resplined and drilled for the right lug patterns.
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Re: Dana 60’s from Ford e350 worth building?
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If my memory is correct ford offered two different Dana 60 H.D. axle tube diameter, 3.0 and 3.250, maybe even a 3.125 width earlier I've used all three, I prefer the 3.0 or the 3.125 for the weight savings The shorter , narrower axle tubes, the less weight I retrieved a "Dana 60" from a Diesel E350, and discovered it was actually a Dana 70, doable, but not ideal.
Reality check, that half the population is smarter then 50% of the people and it's a constantly contested fact.
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Re: Dana 60’s from Ford e350 worth building?
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Price a new S60 bare housing and compare against the core + labor.
Also give some thought about whether you care about the lack of snubber provisions and very slightly greater complexity of service (compared to an S60 with diff bearing adjusters) on truck housings.
I'd done that a few years ago and at the time I think there was a small savings going with a salvage yard piece, but it
may have been worth it to pay lightly extra and not have to do any of the work, and have a shiny housing with no grease or rust to deal with, nothing to cut, just build it. When I was hunting around for 60's and 70's for my project,pretty much all of used truck rears had spun a carrier bearing and the housing surfaces were worn. It needs the carrier pulled to see the wear of course. I ended up taking the housings to a machine shop with a line boring tool and they cut the bearing lands flat again, cost about 400.00.
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Re: Dana 60’s from Ford e350 worth building?
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03/04/24 11:13 AM
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Must have lucked out. I found a D60 on Craig's List that was a pull out of an '80 F250 for $100. Had a local shop cut it to size and bought all the parts from Dr. Diff. I think I reused the ring gear.
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Re: Dana 60’s from Ford e350 worth building?
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03/08/24 12:41 AM
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Have the option of getting a Dana 60 that is in a Ford E350 Van. There’s actually 3 , 2 2009 Vans and one 2012.
Are these worth getting and have them cut and built to fit a car of choice? I used a Ford Dan60 in my old 1965 plymouth B body
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Re: Dana 60’s from Ford e350 worth building?
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03/11/24 09:21 PM
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I just bought a Dodge truck D60 with 4.10's in it from a guy in Southern Indiana for $100. I'm happy to see this post in here today.
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Re: Dana 60’s from Ford e350 worth building?
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03/11/24 11:58 PM
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I just bought a Dodge truck D60 with 4.10's in it from a guy in Southern Indiana for $100. I'm happy to see this post in here today.
Give Dr. Diff a look for parts. Very happy with mine!
'63 Dodge 330
11.19 @ 121 mph
Pump gas, n/a, through the mufflers on street tires with 3.54's. 3,600 lbs.
10.01 @ 133mph with a 250 shot of nitrous an a splash of race gas. 1.36 60 ft. 3,700 lbs.
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Re: Dana 60’s from Ford e350 worth building?
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03/12/24 09:00 AM
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Mine came out of a 1 ton duallie Dodge.
We cut off the full floater ends and replaced with ends I had from an old 8 3/4 housing. I also installed Dr. Diff axles and spool.
With a gear change and some labor to the local chassis shop to burn the ends on, I had around $900.00 in it.  I did two of them at the same time. I have a friend that narrowed them for free, then I did the gear setup and all assembly myself. Got lucky w/ one of them that it already had the good powerlock diff., 3.54 gear, and a 1350 yoke on it. Only needed narrowing w/ new housing ends, axles, and a 35 spline gear kit for the diff. All parts from Dr. Diff. Like mentioned previously....most will have thicker axle tubes (3.25" versus 3" if I recall correctly) so you'll need larger U bolts. I got the bigger U bolts from NAPA.
CHIP
'70 hemicuda, 575" Hemi, 727, Dana 60
'69 road runner, 440-6, 18 spline 4 speed, Dana 60
'71 Demon, 340, low gear 904, 8.75
'73 Chrysler New Yorker, 440, 727, 8.75
'90 Chevy 454SS Silverado, 476" BBC, TH400, 14 bolt
'06 GMC 2500HD LBZ Duramax
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Re: Dana 60’s from Ford e350 worth building?
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03/12/24 01:34 PM
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[quote=GY3]
Like mentioned previously....most will have thicker axle tubes (3.25" versus 3" if I recall correctly) so you'll need larger U bolts. I got the bigger U bolts from NAPA. Mine had the thicker axles, I did manage to get stock u-bolts around them, though. Definitely 3.25".
'63 Dodge 330
11.19 @ 121 mph
Pump gas, n/a, through the mufflers on street tires with 3.54's. 3,600 lbs.
10.01 @ 133mph with a 250 shot of nitrous an a splash of race gas. 1.36 60 ft. 3,700 lbs.
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Re: Dana 60’s from Ford e350 worth building?
[Re: GY3]
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03/14/24 08:46 AM
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[quote=GY3]
Like mentioned previously....most will have thicker axle tubes (3.25" versus 3" if I recall correctly) so you'll need larger U bolts. I got the bigger U bolts from NAPA. Mine had the thicker axles, I did manage to get stock u-bolts around them, though. Definitely 3.25". Yep, you can force them and bend them to fit, but the right ones fit so much better. I did the same thing, lol.
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'70 hemicuda, 575" Hemi, 727, Dana 60
'69 road runner, 440-6, 18 spline 4 speed, Dana 60
'71 Demon, 340, low gear 904, 8.75
'73 Chrysler New Yorker, 440, 727, 8.75
'90 Chevy 454SS Silverado, 476" BBC, TH400, 14 bolt
'06 GMC 2500HD LBZ Duramax
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Re: Dana 60’s from Ford e350 worth building?
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03/14/24 11:19 PM
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I have narrowed 6 or 7 truck Dana's over the years. the 60's 1/2 ton Ford ones I have tried to use were bent so badly, that i quit getting them, not sure if they were that much lighter, or just badly abused farm trucks. Have had good luck with the 3/4 ton Dodge and Ford rears. And as mentioned Dr Diff has all the parts. I usually just use 8 3/4 ends unless somebody requests otherwise. The S-60's adjusters are real nice if you do not have the pullers and spreaders, but definatley cheaper to go the truck route. Jim
64 Dodge Coronet 440. In progress
1998. Dodge Avenger. 8.35@165. 4400 DA
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